Hello, my name is Andy Greenwald. This is my podcast, which is exclusively to be found

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to the newsletter now or in five minutes. It's really up to you. I want to thank, as always,

the amazing Scottish band churches. That's churches with a V for my very cool theme music.

But today's show, man, I'm very excited. The FX series, The Americans, returned for a

fourth season last night and many, many critics have called it the best show on TV. You know

who one of those critics was? It was me back in my old critiquing days. So because the

show premiered last night, I was very excited to sit down today, Thursday, with the show's

co-show runners, Joe Weisberg, who is also the creator of the show and a co-executive producer

along with Joel Fields. So let's get into it.

We've talked about, you guys know my feelings about your show. It's my, I think it's the

best thing on TV. I'm happy to get to talk to you after the premiere because we can talk

about it. So we can up at the front. We can say there will be spoilers about season

four premiere, but nothing afterwards. I'm sworn to secrecy about everything else I may

know or may have seen. And if people have watched the show, they shouldn't be spoilers

anymore. If they watched it live, they're part of that dwindling group that watches television

live. I assume that the the carrot of this podcast was enough for them to submit to the

stick of actually watching the fantastic TV show. Before we get into this, before we get

into the specifics though, I have to ask you guys this, since I never get to talk to you

right after a premiere, do you guys have, did you watch the show live? Do you have any

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