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OMGVBFLOL posted:Yeah. One attention-grabbing characteristic tends to make everything else kinda melt out of a person's memory when trying to give a description after the fact. They're not just trying to look different from their normal look and blend in; they're trying to keep the stuff they can't take off forgettable. Somebody actually put in the effort to track down every instance when someone had to make an excuse for Henry missing from the house, which happened 22 times so far: https://www.vulture.com/2017/03/the-americans-where-is-henry-jennings.html Remember how a few seasons ago there was a whole plot line with Henry breaking into their neighbor's house to play video games? I thought that would be his training to become a KGB spy at the time...
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The last few seasons have had a lot of good moments of Henry being like a more lowkey AJ Soprano-style gently caress up, and I really enjoyed it. Seems like this season he's almost never there and they're always calling attention to his absence by making up an excuse for it
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mobby_6kl posted:Somebody actually put in the effort to track down every instance when someone had to make an excuse for Henry missing from the house, which happened 22 times so far: https://www.vulture.com/2017/03/the-americans-where-is-henry-jennings.html This page isn't loading. What is the deal is the guy just busy on another show or something?
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Fast Luck posted:The last few seasons have had a lot of good moments of Henry being like a more lowkey AJ Soprano-style gently caress up, and I really enjoyed it. Seems like this season he's almost never there and they're always calling attention to his absence by making up an excuse for it Or ~The Centre~ gave Henry his very own MILFy Soviet Sex Teacher like they did with the other kid (because they're 'not moving quickly enough with Paige'), and *that's* where he is all the time.
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I think they Henry stuff is the writers having fun with it at this point. Last episode they get home after dark and ask Paige, "Is henry here?" and she's like, "nope". And no one even gives a poo poo they're like, "alright cool so check out this spy stuff we did".
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Earwicker posted:sure and that explains Philip just throwing on a cowboy hat in Kentucky, but the airline pilot one barely looks like a real person, like it just looks like a dude with a bad fake mustache, and that one is used close to home Lots of people have hair a different color than facial hair. And I get the impression that this job is out in a suburb or bedroom community.
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Earwicker posted:sure and that explains Philip just throwing on a cowboy hat in Kentucky, but the airline pilot one barely looks like a real person, like it just looks like a dude with a bad fake mustache, and that one is used close to home People actually looked like that in the Eighties, though.
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TheCenturion posted:Lots of people have hair a different color than facial hair. And I get the impression that this job is out in a suburb or bedroom community. I'm glad someone finally brought this up. You goons need to get out of the house more often! It's not at all uncommon for natural blondes to have darker eyebrows/facial hair. And I think it's safe to say it's in the D.C. area. Defector dad works for the department of agriculture and they're certainly not in the heartland.
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mobby_6kl posted:People are notoriously terrible at visual identification in any case, so throwing on a terrible mustache and/or hat would probably throw most people off. He's like Poochie.
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Regy Rusty posted:Glad to see she's doing alright Yeah me too. Honestly I figured she was just gonna be killed off screen rather than having to deal with actually paying to relocate her and everything since I keep hearing the USSR has killed their citizens for less.
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Platystemon posted:People actually looked like that in the Eighties, though. the most anachronistic thing about the show is how nice everyone's actual hair is
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Boris Galerkin posted:Yeah me too. Honestly I figured she was just gonna be killed off screen rather than having to deal with actually paying to relocate her and everything since I keep hearing the USSR has killed their citizens for less. They made a point of trying to treat defectors well, IIRC, to encourage others, and for PR purposes, of a sort.
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Pontius Pilate posted:I'm glad someone finally brought this up. You goons need to get out of the house more often! It's not at all uncommon for natural blondes to have darker eyebrows/facial hair. I'm the one that brought up the disguise looking bad, but I don't think it's really the color issue exactly there's just something "off" about that mustache, maybe the shape of it or something, but in any case that disguise just sticks out to me as kind of crap compared to most of the others TheCenturion posted:They made a point of trying to treat defectors well, IIRC, to encourage others, and for PR purposes, of a sort. was she publicly known as a defector? it wasn't really clear how the situation was dealt with from a public/PR perspective, I thought as far as the FBI (and American public) were concerned she just disappeared
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Anyone else think that Tuan ends up offing the Russian immigrant out of spite and anger because dude is wholly unhinged hoping to please the Jennings. It just seems that Phil gets more and more disgusted with the "party line" that Tuan is constantly toeing in their conversations. Also, what are the odds that the o[diary]o that's teased in the trailers belongs to o[the Pastor?]o That dinner scene last season was super tense, and I'm super curious as to what the fallout will be.
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i really, like REALLY hope that henry's absence is because he's fallen in with the now-legendary mid-eighties dc punk scene more likely though is he's playing dnd or drinking
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The gang drove to Chicago to scope out that first greenhouse and they obviously flew to Oklahoma with the cowboy getup. All that time away there is no way Paige doesn't have Stan's son over to watch The Breakfast Club and Goonies on VHS. Henry has joined Minor Threat as a drummer.
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Earwicker posted:This page isn't loading. What is the deal is the guy just busy on another show or something? No they don't explain that, those are in-show excuses like "he's waiting in the car". I assume it's just writers not having a good use for him but not having the balls to actually kill him off.
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I guess there is a russian version of The Americans that has become pretty popular: http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/03/23/the-next-must-watch-tv-show-is-russias-version-of-the-americans/
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phosdex posted:I guess there is a russian version of The Americans that has become pretty popular: *nabs him as he comes out of a Moscow McDonald's* "The FSB! How do you always catch me!?!?" "Foolish American, you ordered your Big Mac with *extra sauce*! No Russian would ever be that greedy!" *the totally ~Alpha male~ security force personnel share a manly and triumphant laugh as three Bentleys pass, the first carrying a Russian oil tycoon, the second his groceries, and the third his dog*
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They catch the American because his documents are flawless forgeries—except that they use staples made of stainless steel.
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OMGVBFLOL posted:i really, like REALLY hope that henry's absence is because he's fallen in with the now-legendary mid-eighties dc punk scene Henry casually mentioning that there's this great band at his high school called Teen Idles would be amazing (if off by a few years)
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the american spy smiles and nods in a silent "good morning" to a passerby as he walks to work in his first day undercover, gets immediately made as a spy and arrested
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Depends where you're from I guess. Where I grew up we don't randomly say hi to people or wave at them walking down the street like weird parts of New England or the Midwest or whatever.
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Apparently Peter Jacobson is in both shows.
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Regy Rusty posted:Glad to see she's doing alright I mean, she's alive. But she didn't look like she was doing all that great.
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TheAngryDrunk posted:I mean, she's alive. But she didn't look like she was doing all that great. OMGVBFLOL posted:the american spy smiles and nods in a silent "good morning" to a passerby as he walks to work in his first day undercover, gets immediately made as a spy and arrested There might be some English subtitles out there if you look around.
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Earwicker posted:This page isn't loading. What is the deal is the guy just busy on another show or something? http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2017/03/23/a_list_of_every_excuse_the_americans_has_used_to_hide_henry_offscreen.html
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TheAngryDrunk posted:I mean, she's alive. But she didn't look like she was doing all that great. Just you wait, she's on the way up. Everything's coming up Martha.
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This show will end with Martha bringing down the Soviet Union
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Henchman of Santa posted:This show will end with Martha
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Dr.Caligari posted:http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2017/03/23/a_list_of_every_excuse_the_americans_has_used_to_hide_henry_offscreen.html The answer is obvious... Henry is trapped in the Upside Down.
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Zero One posted:Apparently Peter Jacobson is in both shows. Proxy Snyder knows how to align himself with our new overlords.
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watch this drat show do nothing with that martha tease. shes just alive in moscow that's it lol this show loves to play with tv/movie drama conventions like that. i especially like how it forces some of the characters' paranoia on you by focusing dramatically on passerby and strangers, cueing them up with visual tropes to be a spy or make a move or whatever, and then just moves on and you're left with no clear idea who that was
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OMGVBFLOL posted:watch this drat show do nothing with that martha tease. shes just alive in moscow that's it lol Does Oleg know who Martha is? I mean he knew Stan and most probably knew that Gaad's office had been bugged, maybe even knew about her relocating to Russia since that was a larger operation..
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Earwicker posted:Does Oleg know who Martha is? I mean he knew Stan and most probably knew that Gaad's office had been bugged, maybe even knew about her relocating to Russia since that was a larger operation.. Doubtful. Oleg was assigned to work on science and technology intel. Closest he got to Martha was transcribing Mail Robot beeps.
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Oleg remains fantastic and probably the most sympathetic character on the entire show.
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precision posted:Oleg remains fantastic and probably the most sympathetic character on the entire show. Mail robot?
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Apparently Moscow actually had tons of disco bars in the early 80s and they were partially controlled by the KGB and were popular spots for meeting foreign agents so holy poo poo writers give us Oleg in the disco now please
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precision posted:Apparently Moscow actually had tons of disco bars in the early 80s and they were partially controlled by the KGB and were popular spots for meeting foreign agents so holy poo poo writers give us Oleg in the disco now please Буги-лихорадка!
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