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Did Martha ever use that gun?
lol loved that lineEDIT: "I thought random people couldn't stop staring at me because I'm so handsome."
noDid Martha ever use that gun?
Good episode. I thought for sure the guy in the hat was watching that scientist. Alison Wright doing some solid work.
Hans did appear the second time they went to talk to the scientist, iirc. He was in disguise and tipped off Elizabeth about the FBI tail.
The vial doesn't contain Ebola. That's just the reviewer making an argument that the things humanity probably needs to fear most are things that aren't newsmakers.
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Hans did appear the second time they went to talk to the scientist, iirc. He was in disguise and tipped off Elizabeth about the FBI tail.
I'm not sure we heard that conversation, right? I thought her last scene in the penultimate episode of S3 was the wig removal followed by her shocked look. Now in S4, they just picked up a bit later without explaining how he framed it.Remind me, who did Phillip say he was working for when he confessed to Martha?
I'm not sure we heard that conversation, right? I thought her last scene in the penultimate episode of S3 was the wig removal followed by her shocked look. Now in S4, they just picked up a bit later without explaining how he framed it.
I'm not sure we heard that conversation, right? I thought her last scene in the penultimate episode of S3 was the wig removal followed by her shocked look. Now in S4, they just picked up a bit later without explaining how he framed it.
Low and more or less even with last season in the daily numbers. I haven't seen the L+3 yet. FX is more interested in the timeshifted numbers like the L+7, etc.. The Americans will get the one or two more seasons that it needs to finish up.Is there a word on ratings?
Pastor Tim
Family tension reaches an intense boiling point in the Jennings house as Phillip tries desperately to get rid of a sensitive and dangerous package.
Episode title ensures only good, happy things for Pastor Tim I'm sure.
Yes. It's one of the best shows currently airing.Should I get into this show? Looks like season 1-3 on Amazon Prime and S4 is streaming on Hulu. Nice nice.
I always loved the idea of taking a spy show and turning it on its head. Everything you have seen in this genre before is a very popcorn-y, action-adventure kind-of thing, at least on TV. This show is something different, said Eric Schrier, FXs president of original programming, who explained that the nature of the series made it inherently niche. All of the things that make the show dark and great also go against what makes the genre fun and exciting. I think there is a level of the audience that wants that element of the show and The Americans is not for them. They do not want a hard drama.
The period element of the show may be responsible for turning away some potential fans. Data from Nielsen reveals that viewers watching The Americans skew much older. Of the nearly 2.4 million viewers who tuned in to Season 3 on average, over 1.3 million of them were over 50 years old; fewer than 250,000 viewers between the ages of 18 and 34 were watching. In fact, no season of The Americans has ever averaged over a million viewers 18 to 34 years old. Season 1 came the closest with 795,000. Younger viewers, it seems, are just not all that interested in the Cold War.
What millennials do want is their shows to be available where and when they want them. That presents a problem for FX. The networks back-end distribution rights are anything but streamlined. Some shows end up on Netflix and Hulu, while others, like The Americans, land on Amazon. Amazon reaches far fewer viewers than Netflix Nielsen has estimated that Netflix is in more than twice as many households as its competitor which means a far smaller pool of fans who can catch up on previous seasons and join the live broadcast.
More via the link.We are in the portfolio business, said Schrier. I dont want every show to be like every other show. I think The Americans is extremely valuable to our brand. That people think it is the best show on television is very valuable to us as a brand. It may not have the highest ratings, but it has benefits to us in other ways.
In some ways, FX is thinking more like a streaming service, or a premium cable network, like HBO, that operates on the assumption that consumers trust their content judgment, that their viewership does not live or die on one show. During the Television Critics Association press tour in August, Landgraf made it clear that FX is making its brand the priority.
A contention that people watch shows, not networks, I think, does have some validity, but as technology evolves and people consume television through different modes of delivery than channels, brands will become increasingly important as mediating filters for the overwhelmed viewing public, he argued. Brands make consumers lives easier. They are signposts that point to their favorite choices.
Its a risky strategy for an ad-supported network, but that train of thought also explains why FX has stayed so loyal to The Americans, sticking with the show for four seasons amid low ratings. Schrier explained that when discussing renewal, FX looks at three core factors: whether the critics love a show, whether the audience loves a show and whether they love a show. He says only two of the boxes need to be checked for the network to keep a show alive.
Do I expect the viewership to rise? No, I dont. I expect the show to do about what it did last year, said Schrier. Im fine with that.
I still think the pastor is part of the KGB.
I don't like everything on FX, certainly, but I fucking love their attitude regarding their programming.
Why did you choose the 1980s as your setting, as opposed some other decade during the Cold War?
WEISBERG It was really all because of Ronald Reagan. The way the Cold War heated up during that time, and the way he was so direct and clear about how he wanted to destroy the Soviet Union. He said it. So that made it easier, in a way, to relate to and sympathize with characters who were fighting for the Soviet Union and had to battle against that. Its also a very vibrant, exciting time, and one we remembered.
And one thats easier to recreate than, say, a 1950s streetscape.
FIELDS Ironically, this period may be harder to produce than the 50s, in a strange way. The farther back you go in time, the more specific you can get with certain props, particularly cars. Cars have been a constant challenge for the production. If youre doing something set in the 1920s, there are people who have classic cars from the 1920s and they take care of them like theyre babies. You can rent them and they all run because everyone who has a 1920s car loves it thats why its still around. But when you try to get cars from the 70s and 80s, most of them are clunkers. Youre on the set and you say Action, and they stall.
Where did that recording of Paige and the Pastor's phone conversation come from?