The TV Discussion Thread

[Mara]

Totally just found out that AMC cut Hiddleston's butt out of their broadcast. WHAT GRIM DYSTOPIAN OLIGARCHY IS THIS

[Winston*]

I definitely liked it more than you but my ultimate impression was less positive than I was earlier in the thread. The Egypt-Switzerland-Spain build up is much more compelling than the follow through. It builds up the impression of a complexity that it doesn't really deliver on. There's not much to reveal with these characters. Roper is just an oblivious bad guy, the love interest is just uncontrollably in love with Hiddleston etc.

Speaking of spy things, watched the first two episodes of The Americans season 3 last night. There's a death and aftermath in the second episode that is one of more viscerally shocking things I've seen on TV in ages, and I watched the Red Wedding this week. Jesus.

[Mara]

Speaking of spy things, watched the first two episodes of The Americans season 3 last night. There's a death and aftermath in the second episode that is one of more viscerally shocking things I've seen on TV in ages, and I watched the Red Wedding this week. Jesus.

Suitcase?

*googles*

Yeah... suitcase

[Winston*]

For the record I thought it was an intelligent use of shock. I don't feel that way about the Red Wedding,

[Mara]

For the record I thought it was an intelligent use of shock. I don't feel that way about the Red Wedding,

It was horrifying, but it served the story well. It also set up what I thought was an emotional gut-punch that I still think about:

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Later, when Phillip tells Elizabeth that he doesn't want to raise Paige to put people in suitcases... or to end up in a suitcase. Elizabeth responds viscerally to this, as do we as the audience, but someone needed to say out loud that this is what was risked by bringing Paige into the game. I think it's also an important character moment to divide Elizabeth from Phillip; she can put a person into a suitcase and disassociate and compartmentalize that action, while he can't help thinking that this girl is someone's daughter.

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