The Americans · Season 6 · Episode 10 · 30 May 2018
S6E10 START
THE MOMENT A train platform and two people watching something they cannot stop - the emotional centre of six years of television, held without a score.
The series finale resolves every thread, operational, domestic, and ideological, with a quietness that reads braver than a conventional action climax. The garage scene, the platform scene, and the final image have become part of prestige television’s most discussed endings. The show earns its conclusion by refusing comfort.
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The Americans Season 6 Episode 10 'START' aired May 30, 2018 on FX as the series finale. Rotten Tomatoes holds Season 6 at 99 percent; IMDb scored the episode 9.8 - one of the highest-rated series finales on the platform. The A.V. Club called it 'tense, affecting, and one of the greats.' Matthew Rhys won the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor for this season. The finale resolves every thread - operational, domestic, ideological - with a quietness that reads braver than a conventional action climax. The garage scene and the train platform scene have become part of prestige television's most discussed conclusions. The final image delivers the full weight of six years without a score amplifying what the frame already contains. The show earns its conclusion by refusing the comfort it could easily have taken, which is why critics and audiences converged on the view that START is among the finest series finales in American television history.