I knew I was hooked on the show when they were on their way to dump the body, and I was enraptured by them sitting in a car not saying anything to each other, because I could tell what they were both thinking, and what they were thinking about what the other one was thinking, and it's so good.
My favorite scene in the pilot? He tries to embrace her and kiss her, and she threatens him with a kitchen knife to the throat. :D
ALSO THE BEST SCENE. And it was both clear that he had gone too far, in pushing after she had frozen up and told him no, *and* that she was reacting in context of having her rapist locked in the garage.
He thinks of her as his wife; she thinks of him as an espionage partner.
YES. And they're both right, and it's something that makes so much sense in context of their jobs. This total assimilation of identity (in the way the totalitarian USSR expected of individuals on a macro-level); their own identities have incorporated their cover identities in a way that they can't disentangle.
I think the show's currently doing something really interesting with Philip that...I don't know how long it's sustainable, but I think the way his devotion to and protectiveness of his family are so heavily influenced by how confused and in control or out of control he feels about his big national loyalties. You know? And it's something that would usually alienate me from him very quickly. But I feel like it's being scrutinized as being quite possessive, and his whole change of heart as being enabled in part by American masculinity and patriarchy.
ugh, it's so good. I'm trying to manage expectations and totally failing.
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Date: Feb. 11th, 2013 03:51 am (UTC)I knew I was hooked on the show when they were on their way to dump the body, and I was enraptured by them sitting in a car not saying anything to each other, because I could tell what they were both thinking, and what they were thinking about what the other one was thinking, and it's so good.
My favorite scene in the pilot? He tries to embrace her and kiss her, and she threatens him with a kitchen knife to the throat. :D
ALSO THE BEST SCENE. And it was both clear that he had gone too far, in pushing after she had frozen up and told him no, *and* that she was reacting in context of having her rapist locked in the garage.
He thinks of her as his wife; she thinks of him as an espionage partner.
YES. And they're both right, and it's something that makes so much sense in context of their jobs. This total assimilation of identity (in the way the totalitarian USSR expected of individuals on a macro-level); their own identities have incorporated their cover identities in a way that they can't disentangle.
I think the show's currently doing something really interesting with Philip that...I don't know how long it's sustainable, but I think the way his devotion to and protectiveness of his family are so heavily influenced by how confused and in control or out of control he feels about his big national loyalties. You know? And it's something that would usually alienate me from him very quickly. But I feel like it's being scrutinized as being quite possessive, and his whole change of heart as being enabled in part by American masculinity and patriarchy.
ugh, it's so good. I'm trying to manage expectations and totally failing.