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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuhUIxZqR5I - Season 4 trailer SEASON FOUR PREMIERES WED. MARCH 16 @ 10PM ET ON FX Season 1-3 available on Amazon Prime | S1 & S2 is on most Netflix regions, Finland has 1-3. Website | Twitter | Facebook | Wikipedia | IMDB | Season 3 thread | Season 2 thread Synopsis posted:The Americans is a period drama set during the Cold War shortly after Ronald Reagan is elected President and is about the complex marriage of two deepcover KGB spies posing as an American married couple living in the northern Virginia suburbs of Washington D.C.. The arranged marriage of Philip (Matthew Rhys) and Elizabeth Jennings (Keri Russell), who have two children – Paige (Holly Taylor) and Henry (Keidrich Sellati), who know nothing about their parents’ true identity – grows more passionate and genuine by the day, but is constantly tested by the escalation of the Cold War and the intimate and dangerous relationships they must maintain with a network of spies and informants under their control while avoiding being caught by FBI counterintelligence. The series was created by novelist Joe Weisberg (a former CIA officer) working under the tutelage of Graham Yost (Justified, The Pacific). Also on the writing staff is Joshua Brand, co-creator of Northern Exposure & St. Elsewhere. A number of people who were involved behind the scenes with Justified also work on the show. Season 2 had the shows writers working with Oliver North who wrote the episode Martial Eagle, for a first person account of the Iran-Contra storyline in which he was involved. quote:"The most interesting thing I observed during my time at the CIA was the family life of agents who served abroad with kids and spouses. The reality is that mostly they're just people going about their lives. The job is one element, and trying to depict the issues they face just seemed like something that, if we could bring it to television in a realistic way, would be new." Detailed Character Bios: http://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/the-americans/cast-crew The FBI The Counterintelligence Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is fighting against foreign agents on U.S. soil - including the elite KGB Directorate S illegals: Russian spies posing as Americans.  Agent Stan Beeman (Noah Emmerich), Special Agent Frank Gaad (Richard Thomas), Martha Hanson (Alison Wright) Supporting: Agent Dennis Aderholt (Brandon J. Dirden), FBI Mail Robot (Mail Robot) The KGB The Rezidentura is the base of Soviet espionage operations in the US. It is based out of the Soviet Embassy, and receives orders from The Center, the central headquarters of the KGB in Moscow, especially those departments concerned with foreign espionage and counterintelligence. The Rezidentura then contacts Directorate S agents 'illegals' via handlers, coded messages or dead drops.  Nina Sergeevna (Annet Mahendru), Rezidentura Chief Arkady Ivanovich Zotov (Lev Gorn), Oleg Igorevich Burov Head of Science and Technology Department (Costa Ronin) Supporting: Gabriel (Frank Langella), Claudia (Margo Martindale), Tatiana Evgenyevna (Vera Cherny), Anton Baklanov (Michael Aronov), Hans (Peter Mark Kendall) The Jennings Philip and Elizabeth are KGB Directorate S deep cover agents, 'Illegals', posing as Americans, working tirelessly to advance their nation's agenda - by any means necessary. As a cover, they own and run a travel agency. They arrived in the US in August, 1965.  Phillip Jennings (Matthew Rhys), Elizabeth Jennings (Keri Russel), Paige Jennings (Holly Taylor), Henry Jennings (Keidrich Sellati) Supporting: Pastor Tim (Kelly AuCoin), Sandra Beeman (Susan Misner) New for S4: William Crandall (Dylan Baker), Young Hee Seong (Ruthie Ann Miles) & Don Seong (Rob Yang) ★ Season 3 Recap ★ Season 3 Lookback Video - Recommended viewing
★ Posters ★       Episodes will air Wednesday nights at 10PM ET on FX. 1 - "Glanders" March 16, 2016 2 - "Pastor Tim" March 23, 2016 3 - "Experimental Prototype City of Tomorrow" March 30, 2016 4 - "Chloramphenicol" April 6, 2016 5 - "Clark's Place" April 13, 2016 6 - "The Rat" April 20, 2016 7 - "Travel Agents" April 27, 2016 8 - "The Magic of David Copperfield V: The Statue of Liberty Disappears" May 4, 2016 9 - "The Day After" May 11, 2016 10 - "Munchkins" May 18, 2016 11 - "Dinner for Seven" May 25, 2016 12 - "A Roy Rogers in Franconia" June 1, 2016 13 - "Persona Non Grata" June 8, 2016 [season finale] http://i.imgur.com/1oOpUyx.gifv S4 Teaser #5 - Reflections - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vPXubbzC94 drunkill fucked around with this message at 08:27 on Jun 9, 2016 |
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I am glad you gave Mail Robot its rightful credit.
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This is my obligatory reminder that Martha owns
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Regy Rusty posted:This is my obligatory reminder that Martha owns
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Precisely the sickening anti-Martha rhetoric I've come to expect from this thread. For shame
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Baronash posted:In a universe where Elizabeth preemptively killed the desk clerk at the mail robot repair shop, the idea that a loose end like Martha is still alive stretches the concept of suspension of disbelief to the max. She loves Philip more than her country, and a high-placed administrative assistant would be a great asset.
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Baronash posted:In a universe where Elizabeth preemptively killed the desk clerk at the mail robot repair shop, the idea that a loose end like Martha is still alive stretches the concept of suspension of disbelief to the max. She is so ridiculously compromised and so well placed it's worth a little risk, which considering human psychology is exactly what it is. A very little risk. Which is of course why dozens of people like her in real life went years and years married to people they knew were spying on the government. It's a mix of denial, selfishness, fear, and a million other things that come together in a perfect storm to make her pretty dedicated to maintaining something like the status quo. Pretty much a 90% chance she's going to need a kid at some point though.
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Regy Rusty posted:This is my obligatory reminder that Martha owns I think this is gonna be a tough season for Team Martha.
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Actually Martha is terrible. Every time she's on screen she just makes stupid decision after stupid decision and she's so wrapped up with Philip/Clark that she's going to have a terrible end at some point and they should get it over with. I can only watch a dumb person get victimized for so long before I just want them off the show. If the "Philip has to sleep with a kid" subplot goes on much longer I'll feel the same way about her, too. Hans the South African guy with a crush on Elizabeth is almost equally irritating. They never would've put up with this kind of potential exposure back in season 1.
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FairGame posted:Actually Martha is terrible. Tactical Realism
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FairGame posted:Actually Martha is terrible. Martha will be the sole survivor of the whole show
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I wonder what worthless poo poo they will have Nina do this season. She should have not come back after the end of s2 
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How are they going to explain Keri Russell having been knocked up by Matthew Rhys in real life?
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CBJSprague24 posted:How are they going to explain Keri Russell having been knocked up by Matthew Rhys in real life? A lot of laundry baskets, mail robots, and nuclear footballs.
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They're doing an Elizabeth-gets-addicted-to-buying-oversized-handbags subplot. Super tense.
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FairGame posted:They never would've put up with this kind of potential exposure back in season 1. Yeah, clearly the mental giants that decided to make best friends with the FBI family next door are too cool to let a sad sack asset stick around. Or maybe absolutely nothing is more dangerous than deciding to have your best friend cover be the guy who is trying to hunt you down and kill you, so who gives a gently caress? YOLO.
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Man, I loved the first season of this show but I never followed through. Is it still good?
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Trollipop posted:Man, I loved the first season of this show but I never followed through. Is it still good? Yes and in fact it got so much better! It's one of the best shows on TV right now, actually.
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bowser posted:Yes and in fact it got so much better! It's one of the best shows on TV right now, actually. I might have to binge watch the last two seasons then..
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I updated the second post of the OP in preparation for tonight with the teaser and promo videos and a couple of links to interviews and such. The interview by Vulture with the two showrunners is pretty good, mostly about the show overall with a little bit of season 4 talk near the end.Tortolia posted:I am glad you gave Mail Robot its rightful credit.  Added two mail robot gifs just for you. Also it appears FX are selling a shirt of the robot on their store, they also have a few posters (but not the awesome ones) and such which you can grab.
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Boogaleeboo posted:who gives a gently caress? YOLO. This is covert ops rule one
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I do not know what is going to happen in episode 8 but that title already has me very excited.
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I'm so looking forward to the start of the new season, but at the same time, it's not going to end well for a lot people is it. 
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Argue posted:I do not know what is going to happen in episode 8 but that title already has me very excited. They put a ton of effort into the the aspects of the show, and the titles are definitely no exception. They're just vague enough to make you crazy.
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Oh right, Phillip murdered a kid, I forgot about that.
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So is this Philip remembering the time he killed another kid out of desperation?
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Phillip being around Martha as Phillip and not Clark is so weird.
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Remind me: wasn't Martha picked in part because she was somewhat unattractive? I remember the voice recorder catching Gadd and other agents ripping on her, which Philip used against them.
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Paige sitting out the pledge. I'm guessing that's significant
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CBJSprague24 posted:Remind me: wasn't Martha picked in part because she was somewhat unattractive? I remember the voice recorder catching Gadd and other agents ripping on her, which Philip used against them. Yeah, I think he preyed on that to a certain extent. The recording was doctored though.
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"We signed a treaty not to make bioweapons, but we think the Americans make them so we do too." That's just pure Cold War right there.
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howe_sam posted:"We signed a treaty not to make bioweapons, but we think the Americans make them so we do too." That's just pure Cold War right there. And somewhere in Washington a CIA handler is saying the exact same thing to one of their field agents 
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What'd they inject her with? I missed that bit.howe_sam posted:"We signed a treaty not to make bioweapons, but we think the Americans make them so we do too." That's just pure Cold War right there. One of Elizabeth's most delusional moments in the show was where she was appalled that the US would see to it the Soviets would be able to steal plans for a faulty submarine which later exploded. It amounted to "How DARE they do something so deceiving to our brave sailors??".
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CBJSprague24 posted:What'd they inject her with? I missed that bit. Vaccine immunizing her against the bioweapon they might get exposed to during tonight's mission
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CBJSprague24 posted:One of Elizabeth's most delusional moments in the show was where she was appalled that the US would see to it the Soviets would be able to steal plans for a faulty submarine which later exploded. It amounted to "How DARE they do something so deceiving to our brave sailors??". I don't know, it's pretty hosed up to intentionally leave fake plans around hoping that your enemy blows up a bunch of their own soldiers. I think Oleg said that wasn't what actually happened though, that the Russians used the propeller improperly and without testing it first.
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I can't hear a word Philip is saying over that wild animal on his face 
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