The camera is getting sneakier on The Americans

We've seen too much

Keri Russell as Elizabeth Jennings.
(Image credit: Patrick Harbron/FX)

I think I've started every recap of The Americans's fifth season with a nod to the brilliance with which this show's cinematography reflects its conceptual content. I can't help it. Rarely has a show more artfully married its camera quirks to an episode's themes, and as those themes change, so do the ways the camera echoes them.

Tuesday night's episode, "Crossbreed," is thankfully no different.

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Lili Loofbourow

Lili Loofbourow is the culture critic at TheWeek.com. She's also a special correspondent for the Los Angeles Review of Books and an editor for Beyond Criticism, a Bloomsbury Academic series dedicated to formally experimental criticism. Her writing has appeared in a variety of venues including The Guardian, Salon, The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, and Slate.