In Dark Forest, Boyer often has his characters sit around and tell stories to each other in scenes that come across as overly obvious attempts at creating verisimilitude.
I predict the final two episodes will have several shots of Cassie being posed for the camera in similar settings to accentuate Amanda Schull’s beauty.
“Fatherland” was a suspenseful espionage episode set at the height of the Cold War era as the Berlin Wall is being built, and it is one of my favorite episodes of the series.
It’s interesting that this episode is about people living together in a “now” that is made more poignant because of what was, what is, and what may never be.
The first season (1974) of the Saturday Morning children’s show Land of the Lost had time-traveling science that made more sense than 12 Monkeys makes at times.
However, 12 Monkeys is now based on the concept that certain people known as “primaries” are Time Incarnate, which is why all of these primaries appear to be insane to those of us who are merely Flesh and Bone Incarnate.
Of course, because this is an episode of The Americans, the title has thematic connotations that extend to all of the other subplots in the episode through a unifying motif.
