Week six linkspam

[jae]

A Forbes interview with the David Madden, president of Fox Television Studios, about an executive's look at producing The Americans.

A Vulture interview with Alison Wright (Martha) on Martha's chances of survival and other matters.

An Esquire interview with South African actor Cliff Simon, who played Yossi-the-Mossad-agent in "The Deal" (episode 205).

A Shape interview with Avital Zeisler, the self-defense expert who trained Keri Russell (Elizabeth) how to fight using something that could pass as systema.

TV Guide's piece "Underneath the Wigs," based on an interview with hair and makeup artist Peg Schierholz.

A Greencastle Echo-Pilot interview with makeup artist Lori Hicks.

An FX-produced mini-documentary takes a look at the KGB Rezidentura and what it took to build the set.

The official description has been released for episode 210.

Columnist Blake Rutherford from Arkansas Business makes a comparison between the show's political stories and the real-life politics of today.

There are some new spoilers from TV Guide's Ask Ausiello column.

The fashion blog Into the Gloss has a piece on how to replicate Elizabeth's early 80s look.

The Americans is now airing in Israel, with each episode airing the Sunday after it aired in the U.S. and Canada.

And there are two new 8tracks.com fanmixes for the show: Sorry I Didn't Kill You and Party At Ground Zero.

Comments

[soupytwist]

I love that Alison Wright interview, even if they did call Martha "feisty"! I love that she's really invested in how Martha's view of the situation is really, really, REALLY different than the audience's. It's so true. I love the note that Martha thinks she's in control, that she's the alpha. Cause: YES, omfg, exactly.

[sistermagpie]

I'm so glad we've now got "Simple Jenny" for that character.

But yeah, Martha really isn't a sad character. A lot of people I've seen try to read a pathetic-ness to her that isn't there. I mean, there's something sad about her situation, sure, but there's no indication that she's in the mess because she's so starved for attention and nobody else would ever want her. Clark just presented himself as a good candidate and, as I love that she points out, Martha thinks she's the alpha in this situation because that's how Clark's been created. (And God knows Philip has plenty of practice being the adaptive husband...) I love that he's possibly going to have to adapt more and focus.

I feel like this past ep might have been sort of a turning point that way, actually. That Elizabeth and Philip have now both done the first stage of their processing over the Emmett Leanne tragedy and now they're going to get more focused on work so Clark will be more focused with Martha and Elizabeth less frazzled in general.

[soupytwist]

YES! She's tragic, in my opinion - because we know she's in constant danger that she doesn't know, it's very traditionally Epic Tragedy sort of tragic - but not pathetic.

(Actually, Clark seems such a doof in some respects that I think that's not helped the impression of Martha as pathetic, like, what sort of woman would go for him? But the answer is, a woman who wants to be the one making decisions and feeling like she's loved and important!)

I think you are probably right about the latest ep being a turning point, and I am super excited to see how that goes. Martha wanting to put him on an application form is a big step, he has tor espond to it somehow, and as long as Martha doesn't end up in a dumpster or something I am super excited to find out how! I think Elizabeth is going to be where the conjunction of work and family stuff happens though, I kind of suspect her work energy is suddenly going to be going into looking into Paige...