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A Bloody Chicago welcome, in this week’s ‘The Americans’
May 14, 2018Sometimes, even though a mission is thoroughly hopeless from the start, you still soldier through to the thankless end.
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Spilling ‘the T’: How Chicago artists are queering up the independent web scene
May 9, 2018'The T' carves out the space required to tell authentic stories as queer, trans, Black, marginalized individuals that also remain true to the specificity of their own narratives.
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The children’s war continues for ‘The Americans’
May 3, 2018Too often, sons and daughters become tangled in battles not of their own making, whether in the Sudan, or Iraq, or here in the U.S.
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Her Mission: Impossible? Elizabeth’s struggles on ‘The Americans’
April 24, 2018The show seems to be establishing the likelihood that Philip will betray his true country in order to pay off his debts. Too obvious a plot line, but we’ll see what happens.
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Upselling and down-strangling in ‘The Americans’
April 23, 2018The pressure, always intense for our undercover couple of Philip and Elizabeth Jennings, is ratcheting steadily upward.
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