This week's links

[jae]

This week's TV Guide features a piece with a lot of juicy season two spoilers in it (including at least a few bits not mentioned previously).

A look at the press kit for season two that a bunch of very lucky television journalists have received over the last week (no spoilers).

We now have a full episode description for episode 204 (second season, fourth episode).

For those of you in North America: Keri Russell is going to be on Late Night with David Letterman on Thursday, February 20th. Set your PVRs!

And for those of you in New York or who can get there easily, there is a free and open-to-the-public panel interview tomorrow morning at Bryant Park with showrunners Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields and actor Noah Emmerich (Stan). I hope someone can make it and do a writeup for us!

This hour-long panel from the Academy of Television Arts And Sciences with Joel Fields, Joe Weisberg, Noah Emmerich, Matthew Rhys (Philip), Annet Mahendru (Nina), and Margo Martindale (Claudia) is actually from last spring, but I didn't link it then, and it's been making the rounds again.

I've been trying to get people to come here and link to their own fanworks rather than linking to them myself in my linkspams, but this very clever picspam by belovedcreation that reimagines images from Austenland and Death Comes to Pemberley as a The Americans AU was too good to pass up. :)

There was a great review of the season one DVD/Blu-Ray set from Australia this week. And based on one of the little featurettes on the set, TV.com did a little piece on "Clark" and Martha's "marriage".

And finally, for the fanwriters and fanartists out there, there's a multifandom fanfiction and art fest going on, and also a multifandom fanfiction fest celebrating friendship. Go forth and request/create The Americans fanworks!

Comments

[sistermagpie]

In the review it suggested there was a martial arts feature on the DVD.

[jae]

Sadly, it's not really that; they just discuss it briefly (unless the reviewer's DVD had something mine didn't).

-J

[sistermagpie]

There do seem to be some videos etc. online, at least. But then, you could probably get a lot out of just watching how they do it on the show and use that. The stuff they do is pretty clear in terms of what they're doing. I remember on an anon meme someone randomly mentioned that they thought the fighting on the show was some of the best on any show, because it was the most like real fighting.

[katiac]

Like the DVD they sent the press people? Or the season one DVD (I haven't watched all the features yet)?

[sistermagpie]

Looks like neither. It just gets mentioned in passing. :-(