IWatchTooManyDamnShows

Hot diggity, I have seen my fair share of tv shows and their endings, but The Americans' last hour episode easily stands out among all of those.

Considering this is a series where the main characters are Russian spies, essentially the "bad guys', I was starting to wonder midway how they plan to end this series. Damn did the writers and actors do a great job. One of the most suspensefull, "what's going to happen!!", tear inducing, and shocking one hour of televsion I have ever seen.

So much so that I almost bumped this up to a 9, but in my opinion I would rate the entire six season journey of The Americans overall as a very high 8.

In this series you will find engaging characters and amazing actors who play them. Everybody from the main family, the FBI agents and all the characters that get swept in the plots of the Russian spy network, are portrayed so very damn well.

The premise alone of following the exploits of Russian spies pretending to be an all American family in the 80s, is already interesting. However the stories and mainly the characterisation are excellent, and those will keep you hooked throughout.

Totally recommend watching The Americans.

You'll get a better story and an actual ending that was worked towards for years.

The Sandman for me has the same problem as the Preacher tv series. The show is ok, but since you are comparing it to the source material, that makes that it's only just "ok" pretty damn bad.

For me it was more annoying that everybody was suddenly British, but a lot of the characters did not feel like they were portraying the characters from the comic. While not being a deal-ender, this still was distracting in a bad way (for me).

If you're familair with the original work, you'll get a whiplash looking at all the characters which have been changed on this show.

Worse though is that the show especially later veers off the path of the comic's story. So much so that despite The Sandman being one of my favourite comics ever, I couldn't keep watching.

If you're doing your best to do something completely different than the work which it was based on and what your fans loved, why would I then still care?

That Gaiman himself was involved in all the changes, does not change that sentiment.

Read the comic if you want to experience the Sandman story, it was infinitely better than the tv series.

Let me begin by stating my favourite thing about Parenthood, and it definitely was a grower as I didn't start liking them untill well later in the series: Adam and Kristina with their autistic son.

One of the most powerfull scenes of this show without spoiling too much, is when they drive back from camp with their son Max in the car. That was an amazing scene. The powerlessness of parents not being able to protect their children from everything. Wow.

There are some less entertaining characters in the show though, like say both children from Sarah (Lauren Graham) oh my God. The actor who plays the son can not act, he gets a little better in later seasons.. Add to that, that his character and his sister, are super whiny annoying. You will not grow to like them at all.

I really liked the addition of Ray Romano's character to the show though. Whoever thought of him, and how his character grows with multiple characters of the show: you did good.

I just finished the last episode. While not everything was great in the 6 seasons of Parenthood, yeah I will miss the Braverman family. Not all of them, but definitely most of them.