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All of the painful truths that any of us face in life is going to lead to a tough transition,

a tough reassessment.

There's always a mountain to climb or a valley to crawl through afterwards, but there's

almost invariably something better on the other side.

In this show, of course, you have to live to make it to the other side, but that's another

story.

Yeah. side. But that's another story. Hello and welcome to Slate's TV Club Insider podcast for Season 4 of the Americans. This week we'll be talking about Glanders, the season four premiere. I'm June Thomas, a writer and editor

at Slate, and I'm madly excited to be the host of

this season's companion podcast to the FX show. We'll take you behind the scenes and give an

insider look into the writing, researching, producing of the show, and I've been assured

that secrets will be spilled. Malina Spom, he did such an amazing job on season three, has moved on

to TV pastures

new, so I have the unenviable job of stepping into her shoes.

Each week I'll be joined by someone from the castor crew, and today I'm in glorious

Gowanus Brooklyn, where the show is made with Joe Weisberg, the creator of the Americans,

and his co-show runner and co-executive producer, Joel Fields, aka the Jays.

Okay, Joe and Joel, I'm super excited to talk to you, but we have Kerry Russell and Matthew

Reese here for about five minutes of this episode. At least five minutes. Don't worry, they'll be back

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