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

[katiac]

Like, with Annelise, the impression I got was that it was only a periodic thing, not something that would require the same extent of juggling as a source like Martha. The trouble with Martha is that she's a fake-girlfriend and then fake-wife, and SHE doesn't think there's anything unusual about "Clark." So the "I'm busy at work" might be a good excuse for "Clark" to only see her once or twice a week, but he still has to be available occasionally, call her, etc.

With Annelise, it's a pure affair and Annelise is married to someone else. Philip's cover is that he's a spy for Sweden, so one would assume (or perhaps Annelise would) that he's in and out of town, etc. So probably he could get away with only seeing her a few times a year.

[quantumreality]

That said she seems to be the most risky as an asset because she treats spying like a huge game and seems to be somewhat emotionally needy. She seems like the kind of person who might get cheesed off at Phillip having to be absent for a meeting and in doing so, decide in a fit of spite to blow the lid off his cover, without thinking about the fact that she would then also be under the microscope.

[sistermagpie]

Philip himself considers her a loose canon. Or in his words, iirc, "half off her rocker."