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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSbr8shhwCk PREMIERES WED. FEB 26 @ 10 ET ON FX Season 1 available on Amazon Prime Special thanks to drunkill for providing the header images. Check his post below for more cool poo poo! Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys play Elizabeth and Phillip Jennings, KGB spies posing as a married couple in Washington, D.C, circa 1981-82. They have children, they speak perfect unaccented English, and they have stable cover jobs as travel agents. By all outward appearances, they are the quintessential American family. However, issues have arisen. While cold, distrustful Elizabeth remains loyal to the Soviet cause, Phillip has slowly become enamored with American culture and convenience. Meanwhile, their new neighbor, Stan Beeman (Noah Emmerich), happens to be an FBI counter-intelligence agent, and with the Soviet bureaucracy understandably seeing Ronald Reagan as a madman, the Jennings are being pushed into increasingly risky missions. If the Jennings want to make it through the Cold War alive, they have to be at the top of their game. Unfortunately, after 20 years of arranged marriage, Elizabeth and Phillip have realized that they're in love with each other, which leaves them emotionally compromised and vulnerable to attacks from directions they've never considered before. Can they be loyal to each other while serving their country?  The series was created by novelist Joe Weisberg, working under the tutelage of Graham Yost (Justified). His impression of the pilot script was "annoyingly good." Also on the writing staff is Joshua Brand, co-creator of Northern Exposure, St. Elsewhere, Amazing Stories, and The White Shadow.  Background music, please...
 Not much is known. To paraphrase Joe Weisberg, if season 1 was the story of a marriage, season 2 is the story of a family. This is further implied by the teaser above ("I hope the Russians love their children, too..."). There was also that BIG-rear end SPOILER from an ad that I'm assuming was redacted: It suggests that Paige and Henry get kidnapped early in the season. Anyway, Susan Misner, Allison Wright, and Annet Mahendru have been promoted to series regulars. Despite starring in The Millers, Margo Martindale found some room in her schedule to reprise her role as Claudia for multiple episodes. As far as new characters go, there haven't been many announcements, but relative unknown Aimee Carrero will play a Sandinista freedom fighter. Thanks to the writers keeping in touch through Twitter, Wikipedia has episode titles for almost the entire season: 1 - Comrades 2 - Cardinal 3 - The Walk In 4 - A Little Night Music 5 - The Deal 6 - Behind the Red Door 7 - ARPANET 8 - New Car 9 - ? 10 - Yousaf 11 - Stealth And that's all I have for now. We're a week away, so feel free to get hyped and share whatever other info you've got. DivisionPost fucked around with this message at 21:26 on Feb 22, 2014 |
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shizengiggles posted:LOVING THIS SHOW. Is this supposed to be a midseason show though, and if so, what is it replacing? Why is it not airing on the regular fall/winter/spring rotation like the other shows? Long breaks will kill it dead and pretty much no other network would pick this up. It's a 13-episode cable show, so "midseason" doesn't really have any meaning. The "break" was only a little longer than the traditional gap between cable seasons. Now If you mean "Why didn't it start airing with Justified and Archer?" I don't think it's a coincidence that it's premiering the week after the Olympics conclude. Last year's live numbers sucked, but it got its second season rather quickly on the back of some HUGE DVR gains. So it was probably a matter of wanting to air this program uninterrupted, thus protecting it against viewer loss from abnormal breaks (unlike Justified and Archer, whose audiences are well established at this point). BTW - This thread title was suggested by someone else WAY BACK at the beginning of the first season, and I never looked it up. I apologize to the guy I stole this from and hope to credit you real soon.  EDIT #2: Mucktron, you're my boy! DivisionPost fucked around with this message at 01:50 on Feb 20, 2014 |
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Feb 20, 2014 01:38
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poo poo, drunkill, you clearly would have made a prettier OP than I did. I feel terrible! The YouTube was intended as the header image, so to speak, but I'll definitely use those subheaders. Thanks!
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Feb 22, 2014 12:40
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I don't know if a cast section is necessary, but I appreciate the effort anyway, drunkill. I did just realize that I left some potentially important information out regarding why Nina double-crossed Stan, so I went ahead and added that to the OP.
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Feb 22, 2014 21:30
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Sepinwall's review is up and he's gone loving APESHIT for this.quote:"The Americans," FX's Cold War drama about KGB spies posing as a married couple in Ronald Reagan's America, had the poor timing to arrive as a very good new show near the start of what turned out to be an incredible year. Had it debuted in a different period — even a year or two earlier — it would have set a very high bar to clear for all that followed and been a constant point of comparison. But there was just so much quality TV in 2013 that it kept slipping behind other work, even though it had so much to recommend it. When I did my best-of rankings for the year, I wound up putting it 18th, simultaneously kicking myself for doing so while struggling to argue that I preferred it to the previous 17.
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Feb 25, 2014 17:41
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One more thing (first spoiler is very mild, second is vague):quote:Even a relatively minor flaw (if you can call it that) like the show's fans fixating on Philip and Elizabeth's wig disguises, to the point where undercover scenes became funny when they weren't meant to be, is solved with one swift, brutally elegant move in the season premiere. Without spoiling it, I'll just say that the minute it happened, I forever stopped questioning why those things never come off.
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Feb 25, 2014 17:56
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Retail Slave posted:Does anyone know if the episodes will be available to watch on Hulu after they air on FX? Unfortunately FX doesn't really play well with Hulu. You'll probably have to buy a season pass off iTunes or Amazon.
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Feb 26, 2014 18:57
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Daniel Sackheim is a directing producer now? That's awesome. He was lead director on LIFE, and at the time that was the prettiest show on network TV.
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Feb 27, 2014 03:17
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"So he got the whole apple in his mouth..." 
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Feb 27, 2014 03:27
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Shoulda went with Mad Max, Stan. Shoulda went with Mad Max.
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Feb 27, 2014 03:35
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Holy hell.
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Feb 27, 2014 03:54
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According to Sepinwall's episode review, this came up during the Americans Panel at TCA Press Tour:Alan Sepinwall posted:* Because no one could write about it at the time without spoiling the premiere, I feel the introduction to Fienberg's press tour question to Weisberg and Fields deserves its place in the public record: "For Joe and Joel, you guys are kind of becoming the Neil Armstrongs of TV 69’ing in the first episode..."
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Feb 27, 2014 04:14
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FuriousGeorge posted:Great premiere, but I'm slightly disappointed by the lack of a sequence set to a cool 80's tune. Third episode of the season is supposed to have a
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Feb 27, 2014 04:20
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AAA DOLFAN posted:Watched pretty quick - what happened to that other couple? They were murdered by... who? We don't know. That's presumably one of the longer plots of the season
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Feb 27, 2014 05:16
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Narcissus1916 posted:Great ep, but confused about something that i'm probably over analyzing. That was probably the KGB agent that got shanked in the "Tusk" sequence.
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Feb 28, 2014 05:12
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For what (little) it's worth, FX took to Twitter the minute the soft premiere numbers came in and assured people that they plan to have the show on their schedule for the next few years. What I think helps the show's case is that it picked up significant DVR bumps last year, and since FX is a basic cable channel that people subscribe to (well, as part of a package, anyway), it matters less how they watch, so long as they watch. They might not get as much money from the advertisers, but it's one more argument in that channel's favor -- a textbook loss leader.
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Mar 8, 2014 13:30
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Phenotype posted:Are DVR and online viewing being tracked, now? The last time I read about TV ratings, which was quite a few years ago, shows were getting hurt by the fact that a lot of their core audience was moving away from regular scheduled TV. Yeah, Nielsen's been tracking them for quite a while: those metrics are referred to as Live+3 [Days] and Live+7. Until very recently, DVR numbers meant little for network TV because as far as advertisers were concerned, DVR users could fast forward past commercials entirely(*). But lately even network's been beating the drum for DVR; they know the future's coming and the live audiences are just going to shrink as new ways to catch up on TV become more prevalent. Now, whether they've found a way to monetize those numbers, or they've convinced advertisers that it's worth paying attention to them, that's for a smarter man than me to answer. (*)Having said that, there's a metric labeled "C3" that tracks Live+3 viewers who don't fast forward through commercials, but I don't often see those published.
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Mar 8, 2014 15:02
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What's funny is that now they absolutely need a new car.
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Mar 20, 2014 22:41
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Hoopy Frood posted:Is anyone else wondering what Paige wanted to tell Elizabeth, or do you think it was typical teenage stuff? I was thinking for a minute that she's figured something out about her parents. Typical teenage stuff for sure. Paige was trying to talk about a hole in her life that she thinks religion can fill, and Elizabeth just didn't have a clue what she was trying to say. That's really all there was to the scene.
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Mar 28, 2014 13:08
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JohnSherman posted:The current season will cost you $2 an episode, Prime or not. $3 if you want it in HD.
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Apr 14, 2014 02:11
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I think we're building up to a reckoning too. Paige may not be snooping around anymore, but between her previous concerns, Henry dabbling in B&E, and Phillip and Elizabeth being repeatedly confronted with the physical and spiritual cost of what they do, something's going to give.
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Apr 16, 2014 19:42
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JohnSherman posted:I trust this show enough to assume that this will play out in a believable and interesting way, but drat if it isn't the strangest subplot on TV right now. look, we've all done weird things for our video games
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Apr 16, 2014 19:51
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Oh my God. Oliver North shares a "Story By" credit on the next episode, "Martial Eagle."
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Apr 17, 2014 15:42
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The details: http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/life_and_entertainment/2014/04/17/top-iran-contra-figure-filled-in-details-of-story.htmlquote:When the producers of the FX series The Americans, an espionage thriller set in the early 1980s, began preparing a storyline about the government’s covert efforts to help Contra rebels in Nicaragua, they wanted to consult with someone well-versed in the situation.
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Apr 17, 2014 15:49
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FX deals with Amazon Prime these days; they've been very vocal in the past about how much they dislike the lack of statistics they get from Netflix.
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Sep 11, 2014 12:47
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Well, GOSH.
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Dec 10, 2014 23:05
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drunkill posted:This is back next week, DivisionPost are you going to make a new thread? I'd be willing to make one for S3 sometime this weekend if you don't have time/don't want to. New thread is yours if you want it!
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Earwicker posted:New thread needs a new classic spy novel/80's hit pairing. Not bad, if a little heavy. I was gonna keep it simple with "Every Breath You Take..." But if you want to make a tradition, my (terrible) ideas would be: • The 8,675,309 Steps • 99 Luftballoon Harvest • All I Need Is the IPCRESS File.
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