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Okay, everybody--there's a sneak peek for season 2 of The Americans up on iTunes. It's free.

It's about 3 minutes and has some new snippets--no full scenes or anything, but there is some specific information in it. I'm putting it under a cut in case people want to watch it first for themselves!



It's January 1982 when we start (did Elizabeth miss Christmas?)

There's a new guy at the Rezidentura who looks kind of great. He gets caught jamming on his Walkman at his desk and claims he was just trying to "get familiar with American music!"

Elizabeth seems to get called back home not by Henry's birthday (though that's a plus for her) but by the KGB putting her into action.

Remember the scene where Philip's lying on the floor at gunpoint? He gets electrocuted into unconsciousness. Presumably when he wakes up he's been tied up.

Henry gets a telescope!

Philip gets a paper with rows of numbers and letters!

There's some other things people say, but I'd say that's all the concrete information. I think we know that Stan's fallen into a honey trap and is "falling in love with a woman with a very secret agenda" and that the show has no good guy or bad guys except depending on your perspective.

Oh, and we know that it does make sense that Paige would start thinking how Mom and Dad are away for long periods of time and the laundry seems to take forever as well...



Weeee!

Date: 2014-02-12 02:01 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] katiac
Okay trying to get it to play... while waiting...

It's January 1982 when we start (did Elizabeth miss Christmas?)

That's what I'm wondering... they also made specific references to season one ending in April/May 1981. But for her to be gone for 7 months seems excessive... I'm wondering if the show just decided it was one of those things that couldn't be helped because of the need to move forward time-wise and because they film in winter. Maybe they just intend for it to seem like she was gone for a month or two.

Or maybe she really was gone 7 months! Poor Philip!

Remember the scene where Philip's lying on the floor at gunpoint? He gets electrocuted into unconsciousness. Presumably when he wakes up he's been tied up.

Dude. Sucks to be Philip. Gets dunked in the bucket, beat up with the phone book. Hope they don't just have Elizabeth with the pictures of the kids again...

Henry gets a telescope!

Really? Another one? He has a telescope in his room in the shot in episode 9... maybe it's a better telescope... or maybe it's like Paige's retroactively unpierced ears...

Okay will try again to get it to play...

Date: 2014-02-12 02:21 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] katiac
It does seem really unlikely that she'd be gone all that time. I mean...7 months? That's nuts. I wouldn't be surprised if they just shift our idea of what time it was when she got shot. No one would not see their kids for 7 months to take care of some old woman who fell down the stairs. I suppose if it took that long they might have set something up to fake it--fake great aunt, fake house to visit (which Paige would go back to...) but it still even seems unlikely she'd need that long to recover since she was able to walk with the bullet to begin with.

Right. And I mean, they've sacrificed timeline for storytelling in other places too, and it doesn't really disrupt things. I think knowing they have to film in winter every time and they have to bump things forward to keep up with the kids aging, it's reasonable that they just want us to fudge things a little and not think about it too hard.

And I agree having her gone that long would be completely crazy. Like if she was gone a month, that would be a long time, but plausible. If she was gone much longer than that, I think Stan would start questioning things. Like you said, it's weird for a mom to be completely away from her kids for that long unless something is MAJORLY wrong. If it had to be 7 months, the more reasonable action would be to bring the aunt to them rather than to go there with no visits, etc...

Oh, he does it to himself this time. He reaches for something for some reason--maybe he's pretending to be a handyman in the room to fix the wiring so he can plant a bug or something. Whatever he touches, it electrocutes him and lays him out flat on the floor.

Okay, that makes me feel better... sort of!

I would guess it's a better one. The box looks huge. Maybe it's a birthday present.

Okay, that sounds adorable. I'll just rewrite that paragraph in my fic and retroactively fix it :)

Date: 2014-02-12 02:47 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] katiac
I completely appreciate you giving such detailed recaps for things some haven't been able to see! It would drive me nuts with curiosity otherwise!

Thank you!

Date: 2014-02-12 02:08 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] katiac
Okay, I can't get it to work. Shoot. I could see the little 20 second preview though, and that looks great!

Date: 2014-02-12 06:31 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] georgley
Thanks for the details! So wish this was available in the Australian iTunes Store. At least we don't have too long to wait until the premiere!

Date: 2014-02-12 12:34 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] katiac
Only two weeks from TODAY!!!! It's so hard to believe. (And yet I want it here like, now!)

Date: 2014-02-12 04:40 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] georgley
I know!

Date: 2014-02-12 01:28 pm (UTC)
jae: (theamericansgecko)
From: [personal profile] jae
I wish it were available in the Canadian one!

-J

Date: 2014-02-12 01:28 pm (UTC)
jae: (theamericansgecko)
From: [personal profile] jae
This isn't available on non-U.S. iTuneses, as it turns out. :(

*sad gecko is sad*

-J

Date: 2014-02-12 05:13 pm (UTC)
jae: (goofygecko)
From: [personal profile] jae
Yeah, but we have an actual health care system. ;)

-J

Date: 2014-02-13 08:39 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] apolla-savre.livejournal.com
I don't think Elizabeth was gone for a full seven months. I think that just means that she wasn't very active in the field until this time. Now that Nina's working as a double agent, she probably passed on to the Rezidentura that the FBI has an idea about a "couple". Arkady probably passed that along and so the KGB decided to only use one of the two as their main agent. Or Philip and Elizabeth agreed on limiting her spy stunts for a while and then the KGB specifically demands that she's needed.

The "back in time for her son's birthday" could mean that she feels well enough/recovered so they could go all out on Henry's birthday (I'm guessing, that line seems odd)

It sounded like the new guy's name is Oleg Grigorevich. I like the look of him, he seems like a fun addition.

(I need to get used to Matthew Rhys' real accent. I have to rewatch his parts because I'm usually startled by his accent.)

Date: 2014-02-14 01:15 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] alisonx
Hey guys. I'm Alison (theamericanstv.tumblr.com). This comm is sooo great!!
I was just wondering is this itunes snippet the same thing as the "first look at s2"? http://screencapped.net/tv/theamericans/thumbnails.php?album=32

I wish it was available in non-US itunes :(
Edited Date: 2014-02-14 01:15 am (UTC)

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