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Keri Russell, Henry Cavill, John Stamos and John Goodman gave advice to their former selves in a Late Night With Seth Meyers compilation that aired Wednesday night.
“Your life is gonna be so exciting,” said the Americans star, “but whatever you do, don’t cut your hair short during the second season of Felicity. No, I’m serious. People will freak the hell out. You’ll get hate mail. You’ll even get death threats. But gradually, your hair will grow back and your fans will forgive you. But you will never — and I repeat, never — forgive your fans.”
Likewise, Stamos warned his younger self, “On your 18th birthday, the prince of darkness, Satan, will offer you eternal youth in exchange for your soul. Little John, I’m telling you right now: You take that deal.”
Goodman recalled a horrific incident after which he is now haunted by a one-eyed duck, and Cavill reassured his kid self, “Your biggest dream will come true: You finally get to be in a Batman movie. … As for your part in the film, I think it’s best we wait until you’re older to handle it.”
This episodes picks up moments after the last, with Philip coming back into the house after Stan roughs him up in the garage (with a vial of deadly pathogen in his front pocket).
Elizabeth (Keri Russell), naturally, wants to know what’s up, so Philip (Matthew Rhys) explains that Stan is angry because he was hanging around with Stan’s ex-wife at a meeting of the new-age-y EST self-help group.
These two regularly sleep with informants and subjects to discern information, but suddenly Elizabeth feels…betrayed. What was bothering Philip so much that he needed the therapeutic embrace of this group?
In the next scene, Gabriel (Frank Langella) discusses ways to smuggle the pathogen back to Mother Russia while suggesting that Philip and Elizabeth need to find a contact at the Fort Detrick bio-weapons lab who has higher security clearance than their current contact, William (Dylan Baker).
Gabriel also offers the Jennings family a personal computer. Their first. Welcome to the mid-1980s!
Back home, Elizabeth is listening to recordings from Pastor Tim’s telephone line and discovers their daughter Paige (Holly Taylor) has told him all about her secret agent Soviet parents.
Mom’s first reaction: kill the pastor. Dad suggests they wait. Killing Pastor Tim will send Paige fleeing from them.
He breaks into Pastor Tim’s home and figures out that he goes to a cabin to write his sermons. Elizabeth thinks it’s the perfect place for a hit. “If you’re going to pull her into this job, and she gets even a whiff of what we really do…she’ll figure out we killed him,” Philip protests.
Continue reading The Americans recap: ‘Pastor Tim’
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It’s tough being a working mother, in real life or on television. Consider Keri Russell, who on a recent springlike day was at home with a fever — her children’s sniffles and the stress of shooting nine months into her pregnancy having led to what she laughingly called “the final takedown.”
But she could have been speaking about Elizabeth Jennings, the K.G.B. agent she plays on FX’s “The Americans,” who, as Season 4 begins, is having an uncharacteristic pang of conscience.
“Elizabeth is watching her daughter and her husband in so much stress and pain that it really sets her back,” she said. “I’m not saying she’s joining the F.B.I. any time soon. But she has a moment where she’s really off-center.”
Ms. Russell spoke by phone from Brooklyn, where she lives with her son and daughter from a previous marriage and her onscreen husband, the Welsh actor Matthew Rhys, with whom she’s expecting a baby next month.
“Elizabeth is hard-core, but I find her so enjoyable, especially as a woman,” she said. “The scripts I read, even for big-budget movies, generally have two lines where you’re a little fiery or you’re not a pushover. But mostly you’re pretty and really understanding.” She laughed. “This is so far from that.” Here are edited excerpts from the conversation. Continue reading Keri Russell Discusses ‘The Americans,’ Her Pregnancy and Life at 40
Philip is having some not so pleasant dreams: It’s about a young boy (apparently him) beating another kid to death with a rock. Oh, the hazy crazy days of youth.
He wakes with a start and Elizabeth asks if he’s all right. “You were right about Martha,” he says, passing it off as regular workplace restlessness. “I need to tell her about Gene before she finds out at work.”
So begins season 4 of The Americans. Gene, of course, is the FBI computer technician Philip murdered at the end of last season so he could plant the recorder at his apartment that would absolve his other wife, Martha, of spying on the same office.
From there, we see Philip (Matthew Rhys) head to his other home, his other bed, that of Martha (Alison Wright), the well-meaning but somewhat gullible secretary who thought he was her husband “Clark.” And he is. Sort of. At the very least, it becomes clear in this season premiere that he cares about her as more than just a KGB source.
“In the next day or two you’re going to get disturbing news at work,” he says. “Gene Craft is dead. He’ll be found in his apartment. It’ll look like he killed himself.”
“I don’t understand,” she tells him.
“The recorder will be found in his apartment.”
This is too much for her. “My recorder?”
“It was the only way to protect you.”
Martha begins melting down the way any fundamentally decent person would when informed they’re responsible for the death of another person. “I didn’t agree to this. I don’t want this …” She weeps, she pushes back, she tells him to stay away.
“Clark” informs her that he can’t visit her home, their home, anymore. But he has one of his own she can visit.
While he’s away, Elizabeth (Keri Russell) is at their home with teenage daughter Paige (Holly Taylor) , who is still getting used to life with parents who are secret Russian agents. She wants to know where her father is.
“He’s with what we call a source. He might get some information,” Elizabeth says.
Paige doesn’t understand. Is he lying to this other person, tricking them?
“It’s more about getting people to trust you,” Elizabeth says. “To help them understand that you want the same thing they want, which is to make the world a safer place. Continue reading The Americans recap: ‘Glanders’
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