Third (and final! I promise!) linkspam this week

[jae]

The official reviews of season two are starting to roll in from various U.S. publications: from the San Francisco Chronicle, from the Tampa Bay Times, from Indiewire, from the Los Angeles Daily News, from the San Jose Mercury-News, from Slant Magazine, and finally, from the Huffington Post (this one is really a negative review of season two of House of Cards, but there's a positive comparison with The Americans in the final bit).

The full Wall Street Journal Live at Bryant Park "How The Americans Recreates the Cold War" panel has been posted (30-min video).

An interview with Keri Russell (Elizabeth) from the LA Daily News (with some season two spoilers).

And an interview with Matthew Rhys (Philip) from the New York Daily News (also with some season two spoilers).

And an interview with Noah Emmerich (Stan) from Paste Magazine (also with some season two spoilers).

And an interview with Peg Schierholz and Lori Hicks from the Hair and Makeup Department, from the Washington Post.

A couple of things from Twitter: according to script supervisor Molly Nussbaum, The Americans made the very top of this coming week's "must list" in Entertainment Weekly. And it looks like actor Gillian Alexy is going to be back playing Anneliese toward the end of the season!

And the comm's own quantumreality with the third part of the essay on symmetries in The Americans.

The Americans is going to be the subject of canada.com's TV Chat critics' panel on Monday at 2pm eastern time.

The TV Ate My Wardrobe blog sent someone to cover the season one DVD/Blu-Ray launch event.

The Staten Island Advance on the use of a local location as a backdrop to an episode of The Americans.

And finally, here's a little clip of Keri Russell on Late Night With David Letterman (on channelling her inner Elizabeth when her apartment was broken into).

Comments

[sistermagpie]

Ooh--that's interesting. I was picturing Philip having to ask Jennifer over for dinner with the two of them, but it's even sketchier if Jennifer has to basically go in as Clark's sister to help Martha "understand" him. And that would certainly give Martha reason to talk about their sex life. Which hopefully leads Elizabeth to ambush him with "So...what's this business Martha calls the Pearl Harbor?"

Also, poor Nina. They're giving her reason to feel torn.

[georgley]

I'm also super intrigued by the new handler!

[katiac]

I know! I'm so excited to read this episode description! And how awful for poor Elizabeth to have to sit there and pretend not to care if Martha goes into details about the sex--sort of a mirror on Philip forced to sit there while Gregory cruelly rubbed it in his face, though not intentional on Martha's part. That's so great that "Jennifer" is coming back!