Episode discussion post: "The Walk In"
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12 March 2014 in the U.S. and Canada
16 March 2014 in Israel
29 March 2014 in the UK
This is a discussion post for episode 203 of The Americans, intended for viewers who are watching the show on the U.S./Canadian schedule. (Feel free to dive in to the discussion even if you're coming in late--and feel free to start a new thread if it seems too daunting to read through what's already been posted first. If you're reading this at a point where you've already seen subsequent episodes, though, please take care to keep comments spoiler-free of anything that comes after season two, episode three.)
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From Vulture
From Hitfix
From the AV Club
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From IGN
From Collider
From Television Without Pity
From Sound on Sight
From tv.com
From TV Ate My Wardrobe
From the Houston Chronicle
From spoilertv.com
From showratings.tv
From The Cloture Club
More to come once they're available!
12 March 2014 in the U.S. and Canada
16 March 2014 in Israel
29 March 2014 in the UK
This is a discussion post for episode 203 of The Americans, intended for viewers who are watching the show on the U.S./Canadian schedule. (Feel free to dive in to the discussion even if you're coming in late--and feel free to start a new thread if it seems too daunting to read through what's already been posted first. If you're reading this at a point where you've already seen subsequent episodes, though, please take care to keep comments spoiler-free of anything that comes after season two, episode three.)
Original promo trailers
Episode recaps
From the Washington Post
From Vulture
From Hitfix
From the AV Club
From the Huffington Post
From IGN
From Collider
From Television Without Pity
From Sound on Sight
From tv.com
From TV Ate My Wardrobe
From the Houston Chronicle
From spoilertv.com
From showratings.tv
From The Cloture Club
More to come once they're available!
While watching thoughts
Date: 2014-03-13 11:09 am (UTC)Gosh, 'chopped and shaped' food pretending to be something else in 1981 (the 'Salsbury (sp?) steak').
1967 - work sex at home! Remind me when they arrived in the US?
Ha! "I thought one of them was having an affair or something..."
Derek should have run away - it's clear he knows he's in a murder/kidnap situation very early on. Don't the rooms have fire alarms etc?
Finger prints!! On the plastic covering of the sheet on the propeller and crowbar.
Why use different names with the aunt Helen? Ahhhh.
Ah ha, this is why Dameran was sacrificed.
(About the local hockey team) 'largely untalented' :) He would also need to explain 'scalping' to a UK audience - it's 'ticket touting' here. Being a capitalist was what got Nina into trouble...
Burning the letter - I can see why it was written 'The Soviets are not evil: look, your parents were Soviet spies!!' and why it had to be destroyed. Writing it helped her, but reading it wouldn't help him. Or anyone else. (Except, perhaps, the FBI if they ever knew about it.)
So, at the end, this is another episode with some very good acting - both in character (like the aunt's reaction to Paige walking in) and as actors (Keri Russell in particular, as ever).
As well as the title, does this win a prize for the number of lines we know are ironic? As well as the 'not tolerating lying', there's the hamburger pretending to be 'steak', and the stuff about Polaris - also the name of a cold war missile system, of course - being constant while other things move around them? (And why does anyone need a star chart to find it?)
Re: While watching thoughts
Date: 2014-03-13 12:00 pm (UTC)Yeah, I thought: "HA! Ian called that one." *g*
-J
Re: While watching thoughts
Date: 2014-03-13 03:34 pm (UTC)ISTR 1965?
Re: While watching thoughts
Date: 2014-03-13 03:35 pm (UTC)Re: While watching thoughts
Date: 2014-03-13 05:45 pm (UTC)They didn't. Helen played that she had Alzheimer's to throw Paige off. It adds credit to Elizabeth's "my aunt was too sick". Helen knew who Paige was, she knew who Elizabeth was. Shelly was her daughter, who died/someone they made up for the story.
Or did I misunderstand what names you meant?