Posted on 02/14/2013 7:22:23 AM PST by OKSooner
Agreed. Good analysis. I’ll keep watching it for a few weeks to see where it goes.
We just finished watching the complete series of “24” on Netflix. Have to say I liked the earlier seasons better. This last one was too disjointed and a lot of loose ends.
Whoops, i slipped back into 40's and 50's mode...
Seems as though it's pure revisionism in assigning some small semblance of decent civilization to these commie scum.
Reminds me of the way the movies of the 50's and 60's reinvented the American Indians of the 1700's & 1800's.
This seems prefigured in that the show's creator -- a retired CIA officer turned scriptwriter -- had the KGB section in the Soviet embassy (the official rezidentura) contact the Jennings, even though Soviet tradecraft was to run their officers posted abroad as illegals with separate personnel, lines of communication, and a strict avoidance of the embassy.
Now, the FBI is on the Jennings' trail through a forced recruitment of a Soviet embassy clerk -- performed no less by the Jennings' new neighbor -- who, by pure coincidence, is a talented, energetic, and vigilant FBI agent newly assigned to counter-intelligence and relocated to Washington.
I am pleased though to see that the separate KGB hierarchy for illegals is nevertheless indicated and that it is now personified by the superb Marge Martindale. She had a memorable role recently on Justified as Kentucky coal country crime boss Mags Bennett.
The ruthlessness of the Soviets was demonstrated again in the last episode. Martindale spun a fairy tale to Robert's Puerto Rican widow of a relocation to sunny and congenial Cuba -- but the hapless and trusting woman is later shown to have been murdered, with their infant son repatriated to the USSR to be raised by Robert's parents.
Although the Jennings are shown sympathetically, there can be little doubt for viewers that they are serving evil masters. Martindale will almost certainly be a continuing character and will do a superb job of combining sinister conduct with a superficially sweet appearance and manner.
Thus, although the Cold War FBI is shown as tough, it does not wantonly kill people as the Soviets do. And another good point for conservatives is that the Reagan administration is shown as determined to beat the USSR in the Cold War and as taking Soviet espionage as the deadly menace that it was. That stirs recollections of a bygone era in which American presidents were, well, vigorously pro-American.
THere are only 2 gay characters on Glee that are main characters, Kurt and Blaine. Every other main charater is hetero, except for Britney, who is probably bi-sexual, and currently dating a guy.
KGB recruiting Black radicals, they are really going for realism.
Soviets thought Haig was trying to stage a coup! Sounds like more realism!
I would like to see a remake of “Telefon” with Keri Russell playing Lee Remick’s part as Barbara (she looks just like her) and Jason Statham playing Major Grigori Borzov. Hans Zimmer can do the soundtrack, Michael Kaplan the costumes, and I can write the screenplay.
I enjoy this show a lot and beleive its geting good.
Poor Philip,, I gotta like him . . .
Anyone still watching? BTW, I’d love to see Claudia get capped. She tazed one man, injected a paralyzing drug into him and cut his neck to have him bleed to death. I just saw a scene where the FBI was chasing Elizabeth and Phillip and I was rooting for them to get caught but they got away. B-( Elizabeth did get shot but they made it to safe location where a Russian doctor is taking the bullet out of her.
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