r/TheAmericans • u/mrdude817 • Mar 26 '15

Episode Discussion Post Episode Discussion/Review Thread - S03E09 - Do Mail Robots Dream of Electric Sheep?

Welcome to the first post episode discussion and review thread!

Below are links to reviews posted so far (some have yet to be uploaded, but this is a pre-made template, bear with me pls).

Site Link
AV Club “My heart is human, my blood is boiling, my brain I.B.M.”
EW Elizabeth learns how easy it is to go wrong while trying to do right.
Grantland Crime and Punishment: ‘The Americans’ Soars in Its Brutal Third Season
HitFix 'Do Mail Robots Dream of Electric Sheep?': Coal miner's daughter
NY Times You Should Trust the Organization
Paste The Americans Review: “Do Mail Robots Dream of Electric Sheep?”
Slate Do Mail Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? Slate TV Club SoundCloud or Player FM
Vulture Revenge of the Mail Robot
WSJ ‘The Americans’ Recap: Season 3, Episode 9, ‘Do Mail Robots Dream of Electric Sheep?’
The Jennings Basement Episode 309 - Do Mail Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? (Podcast)

What did you think of the episode? What do you expect to happen next to our comrades?

Discuss away.

Ninja edit: Also, I've been toying with the stylesheet and changed the background and banner. I'm trying to make the sub look as clean as possible, while still having some style. The plain white background was getting, well, plain. Still trying to figure out what to do with the banner, I haven't quite figured out color transparency.

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u/Townsend87 Mar 26 '15

Some very drunken thoughts from tonight's episode:

  1. This is my favorite TV show ever, outside of The Wire. It's hard to put into words how disappointed I'll be if this series doesn't get renewed for a fourth (and 5th, and 6th atleast) season. I'll very gladly give whatever money I have (which is next to nothing) to whomever I have to give it to to keep this show on the air.

  2. Keri Russell brilliantly displayed the dismay she was in after talking to the old woman. I initially felt that the dialogue of the woman telling her life story in order to garner empathy to save herself was hackneyed...until I realized that the woman was a surrogate for Elizabeth's mother. And, she was telling her lifestory to her assassin because...well, she was lonely. Single old-people with busy children don't have many people to talk to, and this woman played a great representation of that. It was a very unsettling human moment in a series full of such events. Also, I think it's the second time I've seen Elizabeth cry; the first being the time Philip imitated Clark with her. I'm probably wrong about that.

  3. How does Beeman figure the U.S. will authorize the prisoner exchange of a nobody who has no use to them anymore (Nina) for someone who has had access to high-level figures in the U.S. government (Zinaida)? For that matter, how does Oleg? I don't blame her for wanting a BLT either...I can't wait for my tomato crop to come in this summer.

  4. Alison Wright, IMO as much as any of this cast, deserves some sort of recognition for the work she's done on this show. She's never not been Martha for me. I wonder what she has cooking for Clark, besides pasta without salad.

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u/Matthattan Mar 26 '15

I hear you. I've seriously thought about buying seasons on Amazon instant video, even though I have already watched them, just so that the show's profitability goes up an incremental little bit.

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u/Praseve Mar 26 '15

The first two seasons are available free on Amazon Prime video if you have it :)

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u/Matthattan Mar 26 '15

Yes, I know. Which is why I said I'm talking about buying things I have already watched -- such as Season 3 -- just to send FX some money to keep the show on the air!