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The Americans, Season 1, Episode 2 (Patreon)

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2023-09-21 18:06:05
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The Clock

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The Americans, Season 1, Episode 2

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Roland

The attention to detail throughout the show is insane (the Russian actors/contributors would argue about which slang was used in 1980s Moscow for example). In terms of tradecraft equipment, throughout the run of the show they were lent various bits by Keith Melton. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._Keith_Melton

Jeff

This is so interesting to watch this again, knowing where it all leads. It just shows how well-written this was from the very beginning. Your reactions mirror what most of us felt when watching this. I really grew to care and empathize with all the characters on all sides, while simultaneously being appalled and disgusted by some of their decisions and actions. The 80s were a time when both governments, US and Soviet, were trying to perpetuate the black-and-white, good vs evil view of the world, while in reality the actual human beings involved were complex and multifaceted. This show gets to the core of that reality. Maybe other viewers can speak to this, but I wonder how much of the plots in these episodes were based on facts that we now know were actual events. It seems plausible that Casper Weinberger's home was bugged, thus leading to the Soviet awareness of our plans for the SDI. But I'm not sure if the writers based some plots on real events, or just created them for the dramatic tension. In any case, the mixing of fact with fiction makes the show all that more engaging.

Weird Magic

One of three episodes this season directed by Adam Arkin including the Season 1 finale Originally airing on February 6, 2013, 'The Clock' is Episode 2 of Season 1 of The Americans. It is the 2nd episode overall and has an IMDB rating of 8.0, placing it as the #8 ranked episode of this season and #2 out of all the episodes shown so far.

Weird Magic

I always find it interesting to hear the actors in their real voices - Matthew Rhys has a (I think thick) Welsh accent - so good at the American one I had no idea until after the show. So yes, he is a Welshman playing a Soviet playing an American. They talked about Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell being a couple - an interesting/fun story about how they "came out" to the cast/crew on set. Matthew talked about it on this podcast episode of Smartless for those who are interested and haven't heard it yet. https://www.smartless.com/episodes/episode/250583ea/matthew-rhys

JVTrickypants

If I missed it on a show reaction I apologize, but don't watch every show. Are you going to continue with 30 Rock?

Youtalkingtome
>>118071696

I like that they mix fact with fiction, it creates a comparison with Mad Men which we watch right before it!

Youtalkingtome
>>118086385

It's looking like we won't right now. Every time we upload to Youtube it gets blocked immediately by NBC

Actuarial Lurker

I was 15 in 1981 when season 1 takes place. The tension was high in the 70s when we did duck and cover in 1st grade in 1972. Even though I was 6 I asked my teachers- why would a desk protect us from a blast wave and why would we go outside right after into radiation. The mood got worse when Iran took the hostages and Reagan corruptly violated the Logan Act and met with the Iran government right before the Nov 1980 elections and they mysteriously released the hostages DURING the Jan 20, 1981 inauguration ceremony. Reagan was a moron and full of bluster which ratcheted up the tensions but was surrounded with "pseudo-normal" advisors and cabinet who would not have started WWIII. When Gorbachev took power and both sides negotiated nuclear arms reductions it seriously ratcheted down tensions, and even more when George HW Bush took office in Jan 1989, since he was competent and normal. We rapidly had the fall of the Berlin Wall in 89 and dissolution of the Soviet Union in 91, so things changed quickly.. The clock in the episode revealing the initial inklings of "Star Wars" like space defenses actually got to Gorbachev's head. People mocked it at the time (1983 when it was more public) saying the US would put up an umbrella of $780 Billion $I US Bills to make Russian nukes bounce back into the atmosphere. Reagin was like Trump, but with a brain, who could read a script, and let his "handlers" run things since he was dementing... For some biting criticism go dig us the political cartoon strip "Bloom County" that disses Resgan, conservatives and even Trump at the end of the comic's run from late 1980 to 1989 when Trump buys out and fires the town like at the end of Mary Tyler Moore

Youtalkingtome
>>118185287

Man, I'm excited to see the show cover some of this. It's such an interesting time in world history. Thanks for sharing!