Spies, Hippies, and Vikings

The rest of February will be busy with the return of three television favorites.  The spy-thriller The Americans returns tonight on FX for its second season.  With the demise of ABC's Assets, a real-life story of America's spy industry, it appears we like fiction better.  

Tomorrow you can see the fourth season of IFC's Portlandia, the crazy comedy that highlights a strange corner of American culture.  Check out The Celery Incident if you want to see what you are missing.  

And finally, if you want a little bit of "history" to fill your night, you cannot go wrong tomorrow night with the second season of the History Channel's Vikings, where two brothers find themselves on different sides of a dispute that threatens everything they have built together.  This clip will help you to catch up on season one.  Yes, two full nights of intrigue, comedy, and bloody battles.  Not bad at all.