Question of the week #55
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theamericansThe Americans has received widespread critical acclaim, but has thus far failed to grow an audience equal to the size of a lot of other "prestige dramas." What do you think the reasons are for that?
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Date: 2015-08-17 02:26 pm (UTC)I think you're right that the emotional aspects are hard to convey in a summary, and yet more than anything those are the parts that make the show what it is. There's a new German show called "Deutschland 83" that has a very similar summary, but the shows couldn't end up being more different, as a result of the comparative absence of those emotional/interpersonal bits in "Deutschland 83."
-J