The Americans S:4 | E:1 Glanders | Slate TV Club
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3.6 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2016
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys stop by for a quick conversation with June about the beginning of the season. Writers and executive producers Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg share tricks for disguising Russell's baby bump on camera, the themes they hope to hit in season four, and the unique challenges of writing a season premiere.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening Ad-Free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:03.3 | The following podcast contains spoilers. |
| 0:06.2 | We strongly recommend you watch the episode of The Americans |
| 0:08.7 | we're discussing before listening to the podcast. |
| 0:11.8 | New episodes air Wednesdays at 10 p.m. on FX. |
| 0:17.1 | All of the painful truths that any of us face in life |
| 0:20.5 | is going to lead to a tough transition, |
| 0:24.1 | a tough reassessment. |
| 0:25.3 | There's always a mountain to climb or a valley to crawl through afterwards, |
| 0:30.1 | but there's almost invariably something better on the other side. |
| 0:34.6 | In this show, of course, you have to live to make it to the other side. But that's another story. Hello and welcome to Slate's TV Club Insider podcast for Season 4 of the Americans. |
| 1:07.2 | This week we'll be talking about Glanders, the season four premiere. |
| 1:11.7 | I'm June Thomas, |
| 1:16.6 | 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, |
| 1:21.5 | researching, producing of the show, and I've been assured that secrets will be spilled. |
| 1:27.6 | Malina Spom, he did such an amazing job on season three, |
| 1:30.5 | has moved on to TV pastures new, |
| 1:32.6 | so I have the unenviable job of stepping into her shoes. |
| 1:36.6 | Each week I'll be joined by someone from the castor crew, |
| 1:39.2 | and today I'm in glorious Gowanus Brooklyn, |
| 1:41.4 | where the show is made with Joe Weisberg, the creator of the Americans, |
| 1:45.5 | and his co-show runner and co-executive producer, Joel Fields, aka The Jays. |
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