Where things go from here: speculation and musing

[jae]

In their post-season-finale interviews, the showrunners have been very consistent about not wanting to speculate about what happens to any of the characters after the events of the finale, and have repeatedly said that it's now up to audience members to decide those things for themselves. Of course, to be consistent with both the nature and the tone of the show, any future imagined developments should probably be a) realistic (both in the sense of "consistent with reality" and in the sense of "psychologically viable for that person at that time"), and b) a mixture of melancholic and hopeful. But even within those parameters there are an awful lot of possible outcomes, and there are an awful lot of characters who those possible outcomes could happen to, as well.

So what do you think happens next? For any of the characters, and at any point in time after when the finale ends?

Comments

[quantumreality]

A SPINOFF PLS TELL ME MORE

[treonb]

The story of a family of Russian spies set in modern times?

Edit: there was actually an Israeli show about that, The Gordin Cell, which I once subtitled. It was adapted in the US as "Allegiance", but I barely got past the first five minutes of that one.

[quantumreality]

I've watched Allegiance! :D

In fact one of the characters in it was in The Americans, too. :P

[sistermagpie]

Oh yeah! It was the guy who was the husband of the dying artist last season, right?

[treonb]

I don't know if this was discussed here in the past, but googling around I discovered there's also a Russian-version of the Americans. But I can't find it with English subtitles.

http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/03/23/the-next-must-watch-tv-show-is-russias-version-of-the-americans/

[jae]

Wow! It doesn't actually sound that much like The Americans at all, but it does sound interesting.

-J

[jae]

Take any bad fanfiction idea that might occur to someone. Someone in the fanbase has suggested it as a spinoff. That's the extent of the "spinoff news." :P

-J