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Jae ([personal profile] jae) wrote in [community profile] theamericans2014-04-25 10:22 am

Week nine linkspam

An interview with Matthew Rhys (Philip) in the Los Angeles Times.

An interview with Alison Wright (Martha) in Rolling Stone.

An interview with Holly Taylor (Paige) in Vulture.

An interview with Costa Ronin (Oleg) in Metro.

There's a The Americans recap video podcast being done by AfterBuzz, and the most recent one also has a guest spot by Costa Ronin (video, ~54 min). There's also an audio version of the podcast available here.

The Americans has come in at #2 in the new Hollywood Reporter "power rankings".

Recent data indicates that The Americans is the most time-shifted show of all in the U.S. (meaning that a larger percentage of our show's audience watches a recorded version of the show than is the case with any other show).

The official description of the finale has been released.

Better late than never, there's a Guardian review of the first season's box set.

And finally, FX has released a little mini-documentary about the show's vintage cars (visible only within the U.S.).

[personal profile] georgley 2014-04-25 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, that made me laugh as well. I also loved that Holly tried to imitate his Welsh accent!
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[personal profile] quantumreality 2014-04-25 07:51 am (UTC)(link)
I totally want to see the mail-bot in the S2 gag reel :D
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(Anonymous) 2014-04-27 03:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Can you get to the Sunday Times interview with Matthew that just came out today?

BTW, I had the same thought about MR 'snapping in and out' of that scene to apologize to Holly. But, I'm glad he did. Must have been tough for her, too.
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[personal profile] lovingboth 2014-04-27 08:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Sadly comments are closed on the Guardian piece, but it does remind me to point at this story about some real 1980s spying.
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Re: Preposterous?

[personal profile] lovingboth 2014-04-27 08:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I think part of the issue is that having the FBI counter-espionage agent as a neighbour is a coincidence too far for some people.

Particularly after having the DEA agent brother-in-law obsessed by the search for the 'hero' was used by Breaking Bad.

Or the reviewer may just be remembering the really preposterous episode in S1.

I'm more surprised by the comment from someone who didn't like S2E01.
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Re: Preposterous?

[personal profile] quantumreality 2014-05-01 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
And besides, the idea of such "sleeper" or "illegal" agents has a kind of captivating aura about it and draws you in: what drives these people? How do they maintain their ideological drive amidst an entire people who are taught the diametric opposite of what the agents believe?

I mean, would these people be complaining if the illegals were hostile space aliens doing long-term reconaissance of human beings? :P
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[personal profile] quantumreality 2014-05-01 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
Nice article! Thanks :)

Re: Preposterous?

[personal profile] treonb 2014-05-01 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
would these people be complaining if the illegals were hostile space aliens doing long-term reconaissance of human beings?

In their defense, such a show would have 'preposterous' written all over it.

But in any case, I'd expect the sentence "It sounds preposterous, but" to end with "it's based on real life". Not "Joe Weisberg is a CIA officer (so he must know something we don't)".

Wasn't UK also on the illegals list? Who knows, maybe one of them wrote this ;-)