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

[misaffection]

I think it's hard to play a one-off character in such emotional scenes with already established characters. The Mossad agent doesn't even have a name. In that situation, you have to go off the other actor for cues, so it's natural for Cliff to be thinking of Matthew and not Philip.

For me, being a fan of Cliff's, The Deal was amazing. It was bloody hard to watch - he's not the only one claustrophobic! - but it was interesting to see Philip come up against someone so similar, who wasn't the enemy but still stood in his way. There was an understanding between them, and we've not really seen anything like that so far.

I hope he'll be back. I want more of that. And yeah, I'm not going to complain about having more Cliff Simon on my screen. *laughs*

[jae]

His character actually did have a name, as it turns out! Check out the group discussion on the episode when it aired--our community's resident Israeli translated the lines of Hebrew that the Israelis speak with each other, and they call him by name at one point. His name was Yossi. :)

God, that was a fine, fine episode.

-J

[treonb]

Though we don't know if he had a name from the actor's pov. It was only used by the other guy.