Links, links galore!

[jae]

The most important thing is the first trailer for season two that actually contains new footage. :D :D :D Is it February yet???

Next, our show continues to clean up on the year-end lists! The Americans made it to:
• Huffington Post's list of the best new shows of 2013
• Indiewire's list of the top 10 shows of 2013
• The New York Times list of the top 12 shows of 2013
• The Chicago Sun Times top ten list
• Think Progress's Year in Culture list
• Screen Invasion's best shows of 2013 list
• yahoo.com's best shows of 2013 slideshow
• and TV.com's 9 shows to catch up on over the holiday break

Episodes of the show also made it to Matt Zoller Seitz' list of the top drama episodes of 2013 ("Gregory" and "Only You"), and Laurel Brown's list of the best TV episodes of 2013 (the pilot).

The character of Elizabeth Jennings was also featured on Grantland's year-end TV power rankings.

And last but not least, the show is also #7 on Hitflix's TV Critics Poll this year for Top TV Shows and #3 for Best New Shows of 2013 (this annual poll takes a panel of several high-profile critics' top-ten rankings and combines them).

Finally, in non-year-end-list news, there's a great Salon interview with Margo Martindale that's mostly about August Osage County but not just, and I've got a few yet-unmentioned semi-spoilery bits from the writers and producers on Twitter:
• the titles for episode 6 and episode 7
• a couple of shots of props and sets from future episodes: 1, 2
• another cryptic shot of the writers' board
• and a shot of The Americans in its very first Jeopardy question :)

Comments

[christie]

Awesome trailer!! I want new episodes!!!

[jae]

I can't wait! I'm going to pop! :)

-J

[sistermagpie]

I saw a new commercial for the show last night I'd never seen. This one was great--more straightforward. It had Elizabeth and Philip saying things in VO to each other about how they had to trust each other. There were shots of Paige looking suspicious. Then one of them--I forget which but maybe Elizabeth--asks "Is this the first time she's checked up on us?" and the other one says "I don't know."

[jae]

Yeah, that's the one from the first link above. Isn't it great?

-J

[sistermagpie]

LOL! I was trying to edit my comment while you replied to me--I don't know how I managed to miss the very first link. I'm so happy I get to watch it again!