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A need to get as close as you can to somebody,

to have something to hold onto in this vast sea of grief

that she's actually in with the information that she's just found out.

You know, is this the last night she's going to have with her husband?

Is this the last time she's going to be close to him?

Yeah. Hello and welcome to Slate's TV Club Insider podcast for Season 4 of the Americans, where today we'll be discussing episode 7 travel agents.

I'm June Thomas, a writer and editor at Slate, and I'm the host of this podcast, which takes you behind the scenes of the show. I've returned once again to go-getting Go Onus Brooklyn, where the show is made, and today our special guest is the woman who plays my favorite character on the show, Alison Wright, aka Martha Hanson Westerfield. Hello, Allison. Hello. Thank you for joining us. Also with us is Joe Weisberg.

Hello, Jump in June Thomas. The creator of the show. Hello, Joe. And his co-showrunner and co-executive

producer, Joel Fields. Hi, Joel. Hey, hey. So, as we say, we have the amazing Alison Wright,

and I'm absolutely serious about Martha

being my favourite character.

She's this amazing mixture of vulnerability and strength and total sexiness.

And I just kind of wonder, is this a role that I'm sure I'm not the only person who's like,

Martha's the best?

Do people come up to you?

Women come up to me a lot to say that yes i think i think

women really connect with her um and i've had people say to me that oh yeah and all of my friends

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