Week three linkspam, take two

[jae]

Ignore the stupid headline, because this piece from the UK's London Standard actually is a pretty good interview with Matthew Rhys (Philip). The first episode of season two airs tomorrow in the UK.

There's now an official episode description for "Arpanet", and the title for the season two finale has also been released.

FX has released a character profile of Oleg (video, 3.5 minutes) and a little ad based on the critical response (video, 30 seconds).

Uproxx's Dustin Rowles has a new piece called "9 Reasons You Should Be Watching The Americans on FX, and Brendon McCullin from hollywood.com weighs "The Americans vs. Homeland: Which Is Better?"

There are some new spoilers from Michael Ausiello.

And again, you'll want to ignore the silly narration from the (ugh) Daily Mail, but there are some photos here of some breaks on the last day of filming for the finale.

Comments

Paige's Story Line

[apolla_savre]

I'm cracking up over the second Paige spoiler

[quantumreality]

Ha! That Oleg thing? I normally watch the show without sound because the sound can sometimes seem a bit muffled to me and I'd rather follow the plot.

But anyway I mentioned I'm trying to learn Norwegian, so when I listened to the Oleg clip with sound, they played the scene where he claims to be a "feminist" and I swear to god I thought I heard "Jeg er feminist", which would mean "I am feminist" in Norwegian with an English borrowing. XD

I liked Lev's analysis of Arkady's response to Oleg's behavior, as well.

The Arpanet title! :D Back when I first began reading about the Internet in the 1980s, it was indeed called the Arpanet or NSFnet back then, and Clifford Stoll wrote an excellent story about what can be said to be the first time a major electronic spy ring was busted.

So I'm kind of intrigued at the thought that the KGB might be starting electronic spying in that episode :)

[jae]

I was so thrilled when I saw the "Arpanet" title back when it was first announced!

-J

[quantumreality]

Indeed. :P

Also, more on languages aside: There are confusingly contradictory pieces of info about Lev Gorn - he was either born in Stavropol or in New York State. Anyway, ISTR he is actually a native Russian-speaker, so it was interesting watching that scene with the sound on.

Most of the names kind of sound about as you would expect, except the letter "O" in "Oleg" sounds more like a cross between an "Oh" and an "Ah" in English.

Always those jarring little differences. :P