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

[katiac]

Exactly! Like I see their sexual relationship in season one as always having been very... maybe hesitant is the wrong word, because clearly it's not always that... but it's a very weighted topic and that never really seems to leave the room. Elizabeth has some bad things attached to sex. Philip has some bad things attached to sex. They have some bad things attached to sex with each other (Elizabeth feeling forced, Philip feeling unloved) and so I always imagined that while it slowly began to open up a little as things progressed, there was always a hesitance and carefulness attached to it. Certainly not the idea of hey let's have some fun, play around, and see what we like in bed, but more of, we're finally connecting, this is very meaningful to us... kind of the same tone there seemed to be in episode four. It would be a pretty serious thing at first, hesitant and uncertain at times after so long in a different way of approaching it with each other, I would think, and then it would take some time for that tension to entirely evaporate.

I think this would also not even be what it would have been like with Gregory. Surely they'd have been more free, but not quite in the same way.

Yeah, I agree. Like I think Gregory was very meaningful to her, but Elizabeth at the point they were together was really not allowing herself to get intimate with anyone. That seems to be something that's new to her very recently, the painfulness of it for her suggesting she's never been forced to dig to that level before. And I don't think from how we saw Philip and Irina together that it seems likely he ever got anywhere near that with her either. This sort of relationship is really new to both of them.