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Jae ([personal profile] jae) wrote in [community profile] theamericans2015-02-04 07:45 pm
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Episode discussion post: "Baggage"

Aired:
4 February 2015 in the U.S. and Canada

This is a discussion post for episode 302 of The Americans, intended for viewers who are watching the show on the U.S./Canadian schedule. (Feel free to dive in to the discussion even if you're coming in late--and you should also feel free to start a new thread if it seems too daunting to read through what's already been posted first. If you're reading this at a point where you've already seen subsequent episodes, though, please take care to keep comments spoiler-free of anything that comes after season three, episode two.)

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Russian or US chocolate

[personal profile] theplatonicnonyeah 2015-02-05 10:01 am (UTC)(link)
I just read an interview (Yahoo TV) with Joe and Joel where they talked about the choice of chocolate, Milky Way, and Joel said this:
"It's funny you should ask, because many hours of conversation went into that. We talked about all sorts of candy bars, and finally the idea that she could pull this away from her mouth and have the caramel kind of pull away with it was the visual that we wanted to go with… this woman sort of falling into this American luxury deliciousness that would be something that she couldn't ever even imagine having back in the Soviet Union."

So, either they didn't do their research properly on Russian chocolate or...I don't know. I remember loving Milky Way too, because it was different to other chocolate bars we had in Sweden. (I was born in 1970, so I remember most of the things happening on the show.)
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Re: Russian or US chocolate

[personal profile] sistermagpie 2015-02-06 05:16 pm (UTC)(link)
According to at least former Soviet kid who posted about this, Zinaida's reaction was completely accurate and something they had lived themselves. Not because they didn't have chocolate in Russia--or even good chocolate or superior chocolate--but because they didn't have anything close to a Milky Way. (Even the finest chocolate=/=Milky Way, no matter which one they prefer.) They said when those things came in they flooded the market and they ate them every day.