The Americans: The 2nd best espionage/spy show on TV
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They need to step their promotion up. This is one of the best shows on the network.
Been lurking on this thread since it began. Just caught up on my episodes on DVR. Yea...the Paige reveal was huge, but did anyone catch how well-acted the scene was when they killed the old lady in the repair shop? The tense-ness on her face when she said she was from Russia...and realized that she was about to be killed. Great television...
Like how they had Henry see delirious on Eddie's actual birthday...the day the episode aired.
Paige is getting on my last nerve.
again don't sleep on Henry ya'll..
Paige is getting on my last nerve.
again don't sleep on Henry ya'll..
Good episode.
I wish Lisa would stop messing with this bum ass dude man. Maurice talking for you...stop... stop letting him.
Ol boy went downtown on liz like SWV was playing in the background.
Nina has gotten really good at playing the game finally.
The word is "Thaaags" not "Thugs" from this day forward
Beeeep
smh@ them hating on Eddie Murphy
Paige lol
Ol boy went downtown on liz like SWV was playing in the background.
Nina has gotten really good at playing the game finally.
The word is "Thaaags" not "Thugs" from this day forward
Beeeep
smh@ them hating on Eddie Murphy
Paige lol
Both the black chick and her boyfriend have to go now. As far as them telling Paige, I don't know if it's pumping new life into the series or straight up jumping the shark.
I can see them merking a lot of people at the end of this season. It could be like the mattresses scene from the Godfather. The black chick and her husband. Martha (the FBI secretary/Philip's fake wife), Gabriel & Claudia (their Russian handlers) for trying to make Paige a spy, even Paige if she keeps acting like a spoiled bitch.
whats worst finding out your parents are spies and you life is a lie or finding out the love of your life is a spy and your marrriage is a sham?
not sure what the play for Phillip was revealing himself. Martha is liability and very close to losing her shit. She has to go. Maybe Clark does love her to some degree and knows if she runs the KGB will have to take her out.
not sure what the play for Phillip was revealing himself. Martha is liability and very close to losing her shit. She has to go. Maybe Clark does love her to some degree and knows if she runs the KGB will have to take her out.
Did he see Delirious or was he quoting Eddie's SNL sketch "Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood"?
Oh and ummmm f*ck Paige
I told ya'll.
I told ya'll.
I hate Paige more than i hate Geoffrey. God i fuckin hate that lil cunt.
If i was Elizabeth, everybody in that preacher family would be missin. Every. Last. One.
They need to have the little brother clean up that mess in the end.
watch.
(that relationship with Stan? Philip aint gonna like that dude trying to use their son as a replacement.and i repeat don't sleep on the little brother)
Paige may have to look at the flowers too.
Nina coochie must be more addictive then some of that limited edition Stoli
I got a feeling THAT storyline s going to be so DAMN important next season...like Nuclear missile Star Wars level stuff.
Philip IS asking like a child though ...but I understand.
I'm hoping Philip isn't REALLY falling for that EST stuff...this BETTER be some type of masterstroke to get Stan hemmed up if they need too since he was snooping around Martha.
Damn so EVERYONE in the office hates Stan but the damn President loves him.
Stan's wife is cold and confused. She left her wedding album but was set to cry over the chair and plants?
She ALREADY hates the guy she's with.
The way everything is moving they aren't EVER going to find out who planted the pen..at least not due to THIS investigation.
Stan's boss is a bitch.
That Black man looks miserable behind that desk.
I got a feeling THAT storyline s going to be so DAMN important next season...like Nuclear missile Star Wars level stuff.
Philip IS asking like a child though ...but I understand.
I'm hoping Philip isn't REALLY falling for that EST stuff...this BETTER be some type of masterstroke to get Stan hemmed up if they need too since he was snooping around Martha.
Damn so EVERYONE in the office hates Stan but the damn President loves him.
Stan's wife is cold and confused. She left her wedding album but was set to cry over the chair and plants?
She ALREADY hates the guy she's with.
The way everything is moving they aren't EVER going to find out who planted the pen..at least not due to THIS investigation.
Stan's boss is a bitch.
That Black man looks miserable behind that desk.
they laid the foundation for the Paige we know NOW way back when she went hitchhiking with a baby brother and almost got then BOTH killed. And remember the driver was the first one to be spouting about god and faith and a higher power
It was HENRY who saved them and kept their secret.
And now this is from ms god fearing truth teller.
It was HENRY who saved them and kept their secret.
And now this is from ms god fearing truth teller.
That season finale was kinda lame. I knew Paige would snitch. Didn't expect Stan to become the man. Can someone tell me why Stan's ex'wife is in the storyline? Maybe she's Russian too?
I don't understand why she's in the story either. I also don't know who that guy was that Phillip killed.
Phil killed the IT tech from the Bureau to close the investigation on the bug and temove potential suspicion from Martha.
Phil felt like shit cause was an innocent bystander
I think stan's ex wife was around last night to illustrate how fucked phil is and fed up with the job.
She was miserable, went thto the self help classes and found herself. Phil went to support Stan who was trying to win her back. But phil realized he is just as lost and she is the only willing to honestly help him
Bye Paige
Hope you feel good about yourself and that you did what was right when your family gets hauled off to jail and executed and your brother gets put in foster care but at least you get to live with the pastor right?
Hope you feel good about yourself and that you did what was right when your family gets hauled off to jail and executed and your brother gets put in foster care but at least you get to live with the pastor right?
The Americans’ Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys Collude on Secret Covert Project: A Little Baby!
Oh, these two are good. According to Us Weekly, Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys have been secretly gestating a teeny spy baby with the same subterfuge and guile they normally bring to their roles on The Americans. The couple, who are allegedly four months along, have been dating since at least April 2014, though knowing them, that was all a ruse, and they've been together for millennia. Boy, conceiving a child without anybody knowing about it? That takes some real spy skills. On a related note, I don't actually know how babies are made.
http://www.vulture.com/2016/01/keri-russell-and-matthew-rhys-expecting-a-baby.html
Oh, these two are good. According to Us Weekly, Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys have been secretly gestating a teeny spy baby with the same subterfuge and guile they normally bring to their roles on The Americans. The couple, who are allegedly four months along, have been dating since at least April 2014, though knowing them, that was all a ruse, and they've been together for millennia. Boy, conceiving a child without anybody knowing about it? That takes some real spy skills. On a related note, I don't actually know how babies are made.
http://www.vulture.com/2016/01/keri-russell-and-matthew-rhys-expecting-a-baby.html
I saw the first episode and haven't seen it since...I need to catch up 
The Americans Showrunners on How Keri Russell Was Cast
This year’s Writers Guild Awards’ television nominees include Inside Amy Schumer's Kim Caramele, Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields of The Americans,and Sam Esmail, whose show, Mr. Robot, became the breakout hit of 2015. The writers gathered at the New York Institute of Technology auditorium Wednesday night for an hour-plus conversation that covered how Keri Russell was cast in The Americans, and why Esmail’s decisionto direct all ten episodes of Mr. Robot’s second season is keeping him up at night.
Keri Russell was cast on a hunch. Discussion of casting strategies featured prominently throughout the panel, included this tidbit of how Keri Russell was hired to star as Elizabeth Jennings in The Americans. According to Weisberg:
“I was in a room with John Landgraf, the president of [FX] and five other people, and a list of the 100 best-known television and some film actresses in Hollywood, who were in a certain age range. Everyone was studying the list, and John went, ‘Keri Russell.’ That’s how [she was cast].”
The reason? “John had this intuition that she had played such a 100 percent different type,” says Weisberg, “[and] that it would be incredibly fascinating and rich to have her move in an entirely different direction.”
Sometimes actors talk in gibberish when asked to audition a scene in Russian. Fields revealed that when they cast for The Americans, the actors do the audition scenes in both Russian and English. Caramele asked Weisberg and Fields whether any actors spoke gibberish to fake their way onto the show. “The funny thing is, they try,” said Fields. “But we have a translator that, when someone gets close, their auditions get sent out to the translator for vetting, and sometimes the translator will say, ‘Ha-ha no. Not remotely.’”
Writing and directing is really hard. Toward the end of 2015, it was announced that Esmail, along with helping write season two of Mr. Robot, would direct all ten episodes. While he is still committed to that trajectory, the prospect has been giving him nightmares. “I get up at six, and I go to bed at two a.m., and I am a nervous wreck the whole day,” he said. “I am a control freak on set, but I am less so in the writers room. I actually like to hide there, because it is the most fun place. We are yelling at each other, and telling each other to fuck ourselves, but nothing is personal. It’s all constructive.”
He continued, “On set, it is execution time. It is about making it what you have on the page — all those ideas you fought so hard for in the room — really come to life. And that is where I get hands-on.” He was asked by the panel’s moderator what will happen this year when he begins to direct scripts he also wrote. “I had great directors in the first season, but they probably hate me,” he said. “Which is one of the reasons that drove me to direct all the episodes. I wanted to make it easy on [the directors], [and] harder on me.”
Everything is derivative. Several comments elicited applause throughout the evening, the loudest following Esmail’s defense of the numerous influences that helped shape Elliot Alderson and Evil Corp. “I think there is a way to be inspired without being derivative,” he said, adding it doesn’t matter that he “ripped off” American Psycho, Dexter, Clockwork Orange, and Fight Club.
“The landscape is pretty derivative,” he said. “Everything is a remake of a sequel of an adaptation that is a prequel. As much as I enjoyed watchingStar Wars: The Force Awakens, it’s literally beat-for-beat A New Hope. There is no bones about it. And now everybody is like, 'This is amazing and the most original [and] best film.' I’m like, ‘Okay, I guess it works now.’”
This year’s Writers Guild Awards’ television nominees include Inside Amy Schumer's Kim Caramele, Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields of The Americans,and Sam Esmail, whose show, Mr. Robot, became the breakout hit of 2015. The writers gathered at the New York Institute of Technology auditorium Wednesday night for an hour-plus conversation that covered how Keri Russell was cast in The Americans, and why Esmail’s decisionto direct all ten episodes of Mr. Robot’s second season is keeping him up at night.
Keri Russell was cast on a hunch. Discussion of casting strategies featured prominently throughout the panel, included this tidbit of how Keri Russell was hired to star as Elizabeth Jennings in The Americans. According to Weisberg:
“I was in a room with John Landgraf, the president of [FX] and five other people, and a list of the 100 best-known television and some film actresses in Hollywood, who were in a certain age range. Everyone was studying the list, and John went, ‘Keri Russell.’ That’s how [she was cast].”
The reason? “John had this intuition that she had played such a 100 percent different type,” says Weisberg, “[and] that it would be incredibly fascinating and rich to have her move in an entirely different direction.”
Sometimes actors talk in gibberish when asked to audition a scene in Russian. Fields revealed that when they cast for The Americans, the actors do the audition scenes in both Russian and English. Caramele asked Weisberg and Fields whether any actors spoke gibberish to fake their way onto the show. “The funny thing is, they try,” said Fields. “But we have a translator that, when someone gets close, their auditions get sent out to the translator for vetting, and sometimes the translator will say, ‘Ha-ha no. Not remotely.’”
Writing and directing is really hard. Toward the end of 2015, it was announced that Esmail, along with helping write season two of Mr. Robot, would direct all ten episodes. While he is still committed to that trajectory, the prospect has been giving him nightmares. “I get up at six, and I go to bed at two a.m., and I am a nervous wreck the whole day,” he said. “I am a control freak on set, but I am less so in the writers room. I actually like to hide there, because it is the most fun place. We are yelling at each other, and telling each other to fuck ourselves, but nothing is personal. It’s all constructive.”
He continued, “On set, it is execution time. It is about making it what you have on the page — all those ideas you fought so hard for in the room — really come to life. And that is where I get hands-on.” He was asked by the panel’s moderator what will happen this year when he begins to direct scripts he also wrote. “I had great directors in the first season, but they probably hate me,” he said. “Which is one of the reasons that drove me to direct all the episodes. I wanted to make it easy on [the directors], [and] harder on me.”
Everything is derivative. Several comments elicited applause throughout the evening, the loudest following Esmail’s defense of the numerous influences that helped shape Elliot Alderson and Evil Corp. “I think there is a way to be inspired without being derivative,” he said, adding it doesn’t matter that he “ripped off” American Psycho, Dexter, Clockwork Orange, and Fight Club.
“The landscape is pretty derivative,” he said. “Everything is a remake of a sequel of an adaptation that is a prequel. As much as I enjoyed watchingStar Wars: The Force Awakens, it’s literally beat-for-beat A New Hope. There is no bones about it. And now everybody is like, 'This is amazing and the most original [and] best film.' I’m like, ‘Okay, I guess it works now.’”
The most underrated show on TV is fucking Back.... People are sleeping on this.
Man shit is getting real..
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