Review of Amber Waves

The Americans: Amber Waves (2017)
Season 5, Episode 1
9/10
If the setup for the final scene was done better...
12 February 2019
Warning: Spoilers
That's some Breaking-Bad-level twist right there in the final moments. If only the setup for that twist was done better...

The final scene has some creepy Breaking Bad vibes and parallels. I'm referring to Dead Freight episode of season 5. In Dead Fright, the whole episode was a heist. In Amber Waves, the heist is introduced only near the end. In Dead Freight, someone is killed in the last seconds. That happens also in Amber Waves. In Dead Freight, that person was a kid. Here, that person is a young man with whom the main characters and the audience are very familiar.

Even if that final scene was introduced out of the blue, I enjoyed it, but I would have enjoyed it a lot more if that moment was build better...

Still an overall good episode that serves as a build up for the entire season.
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