
S1 E2: "The Clock" | The Illegals: The Americans Rewatch Podcast
The Illegals: The Americans Rewatch PodcastShow Notes
Episode 2 digs into ”The Clock” — and the panel brings the kind of analysis you’re not going to find anywhere else.
A Soviet refugee who lived it. A former Marine who knows exactly how you break someone’s arm — and why. A media critic and author who contextualizes it. A creative director and former actor with an eye for every frame. And someone who appreciates good caviar and knows it should never be in your pocket all day.
This week: the mission that gets the KGB inside the Secretary of Defense’s home, the caviar scene that accidentally explains everything about life in the USSR, the introduction of Nina, and why watching Stan Beeman in a post-Kristi Noem world hits completely differently.
Michelle Kinney, Julie Roginsky, Jeff Jarvis, Lt. Col. Jaclyn Urso (ret.), and Craig Miller. New episodes every Thursday.
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Hosted by Michelle Kinney and Julie Roginsky with Jeff Jarvis, Lt. Col. Jaclyn Urso, Olga Lautman, and Nina Jankowicz.
Episode 10 hit differently this time around.
Things got a little crazy. Agent Amador got himself into the wrong mess. Nina is trapped with no way out. Julie is still baffled: why are the English subtitles not giving us the real Russian? And the wig survived circumstances it had absolutely no business surviving.
It seems everyone on this show is getting it on this episode. Everyone except Philip and Elizabeth, who are having the same fight again. It is a full women’s panel for Episode 8 and we cannot stop laughing — the wigs, the honeypots, and the wigs during the honeypots.
The full panel is back for Season 1, Episode 7 — Duty and Honor.