Week five linkspam

[jae]

The recaps for episodes 203 and 204 are being gathered here and here, respectively.

Relatedly, a wonderful analysis of "A Little Night Music" (204) by The New Yorker's Emily Nussbaum. (I'm actually not sure if this counts as a conventional episode recap or not! Eh, I'm putting it here.)

The title and description for episode 209 have been released.

An interview with Noah Emmerich (Stan) in The Providence Journal.

An interview with Alison Wright (Martha) in Divine Caroline.

Two pieces on the wigs on the show: from Vulture, and from The Wire.

From Esquire, a look at how the show designs its '80s sets.

Looks like the ratings have rebounded a little bit from episode 203's all-time-low. Small favours?

The blog Chick Flicking Reviews has reviewed the show.

Someone has made a fannish music mix for the show called "The Illegals".

Comments

[quantumreality]

Your Esquire link is borked. :P

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/culture/the-americans-recap-sets

That's the proper URL.

[jae]

Thanks! Fixed.

-J

[quantumreality]

And yaycakes for a ratings rebound! :D

[georgley]

I'm really enjoying that Esquire series and I look forward to seeing what topic they cover each week.

[quantumreality]

Me too. It's interesting to realize that "brand-new" 80s stuff would look out of place in a real 80s house, and you can see that in some of the things Philip and Elizabeth have - it's more stuff from the 1970s.

[jae]

Yeah, me too! And how exciting that they're doing it. (I wonder who had the idea for it, and how it was pitched.)

-J

The New Yorker piece

[lovingboth]

"Philip and Elizabeth are murderers who are trying to destroy America."

She writes that like it's a bad thing...

Re: The New Yorker piece

[quantumreality]

You're a hazard to monitors when I'm drinking tea and reading that ;-P