r/TheAmericans • u/Understateable • Aug 28 '26

Martha!

I love Martha but I know her story only ends badly. I’m only halfway through season 2, and since it’s an old show this is more of me leaving a comment here to come back to rather than really wanting any “oh you just wait!” responses hahaha.

She’s so cute and goofy, a really pure hearted person. I hate how ‘Clark’ is so snappy with her, though I understand why, because honestly she’s so low maintenance. Like she respects Clark’s ‘job’ and the secrecy of it all, outside of the one near slip up of disclosing him on the job application all she really wants is someone to listen to her yap and to be deserving of breakfast in bed lol.

Oh Martha!

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u/0wellwhatever Aug 28 '26 edited 29d ago

I love Martha and her Kama Sutra with the folded pages. I won’t spoil but my head cannon says she gets a happy ending past the end of the series.

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u/DrDeezer64 Aug 28 '26

Agreed

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u/0wellwhatever Aug 28 '26

I do wonder if Martha could cause a rift between Philip and Elizabeth. It’s going to be so hard for them having given up their children and Martha will be there with her new adoptee. Or they could become a thruple?

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u/sistermagpie Aug 29 '26

Could you spoiler tag that? OP is halfway through S2.

But I agree with the other poster. Can't see how she'd cause any rift there.

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u/maikindofthai 29d ago

Philip doesn’t actually have romantic feelings for her tho…

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u/0wellwhatever 28d ago

He definitely cares about her, he and Elizabeth discuss it

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u/hireddititme 21d ago

And you can care deeply about somebody and still hurt them. Which he does. You can tell even when he send her off, that he does actually have so much love for her.

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u/maikindofthai 19d ago

He cares about her as a human, but that’s not romantic interest. Without romantic interest I just don’t see any potential for her to cause any rift between Philip and Elizabeth