News and links

[jae]

Movieweb is reporting that the release date for the region one (North America) DVD and Blu-Ray sets for The Americans season one is January 14th. The set will include the mini-documentaries "Executive Order 2579: Exposing the Americans", "Perfecting the Art of Espionage", and "Ingenuity Over Technology", plus a gag reel, deleted scenes, trailers, and audio commentary on the season finale featuring Joe Weisberg, Joel Fields, and Noah Emmerich.

(Pardon me while I stick my fist in the air and say "yes!")

And here's another not-particularly-spoilery photo taken during shooting.

Comments

[katiac]

Not sure how old this interview with Keri is, but I just saw it today and it seems to have (in addition to great pictures... Keri is SO gorgeous!) a few potentially spoilery tidbits, so maybe recent?

http://capitolfile-magazine.com/personalities/articles/keri-russell-talks-the-americans-motherhood-and-more

And like a good asset, Russell will only divulge that the upcoming season is very focused on “family.” Paige, the Jennings’s teenage daughter, starts to ask her parents pointed questions. Russell embellishes: “Questions from her daughter, Paige, make Elizabeth start to think about the safety of her family and whether she can stay pure to the [KGB] cause. It gets very, very complicated.”

After I pump Weisberg for information, he will only say, “In the second season, all the forces that push her political consciousness into conflict with her responsibilities to her family and her love for her children are going to become more intense. It’s not going to be easy for her.”

These two little tidbits sound great! I'd completely love it if they started turning up the pressure more in this direction. I also love the idea of it being Paige that turns up the pressure more, rather than Philip, because I think that has the potential to really dig at her in a way that she can't turn on him or skate around as easily. Paige is really an innocent in the whole thing in a way that makes it harder not to consider what she's saying, if that makes any sense.

[jae]

Awesome! And definitely recent--it seems to have made the rounds yesterday. I'll add it to the list for the next linkpost, just to make sure everyone gets to see it (which I will try to find time to make today).

-J

[katiac]

Cool! There was also a tweet from one of the writers (I guess yesterday) that the episode they just started shooting is entirely in Russian except for one scene. That could be interesting. I'm kind of guessing it's heavily focused on the embassy end of the picture, but I can hold out in my heart that maybe we get a Philip-flashback. I'd REALLY love to see P/E talking in Russian, but then I'm having trouble coming up with a scenario why that would be necessary in the present day, so won't get my hopes up :(... too much ;)

[jae]

Oh, man, I missed that one! Do you think you could find it?

-J

[katiac]

Yes! It was from Angelina Burnett, one of the writers. Not sure how to do links...

"First full day of shooting on my episode. All but one scene is in Russian. This should be interesting. #TheAmericans"

She also tweeted today about a scene with Martha in it, so I'm guessing that's the English-speaking scene?

[jae]

Got them, posted them! Thanks again. :)

-J