Walter Taffet

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"Walter Taffet"
The Americans episode
Episode no.Season 3
Episode 7
Directed by Noah Emmerich
Written byLara Shapiro
Featured music
Production codeBDU307
Original air dateMarch 11, 2015 (2015-03-11)
Running time45 minutes
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"Walter Taffet" is the seventh episode of third season of the American television drama series The Americans , and the 33rd overall episode of the series. [1] It originally aired on March 11, 2015, in the United States on FX. [2]

Contents

Plot

At the FBI, agent Aderholt finds that Gaad's pen is bugged. Martha, who planted the bug under the guise of the classified audit of the bureau, panics. She meets Phillip as "Clark" but hesitates to tell him about the incident. Feeling that something is wrong about him, she asks to see his apartment. Elsewhere, Phillip and Elizabeth found that the student operative, brought to their attention by Hans, is about to incite an attack and blame it on student protesters. The Jennings are planning to catch him. These plans are realized in the final five minutes of the episode.

Production

Development

In February 2015, FX confirmed that the seventh episode of the season would be titled "Walter Taffet", and that it would be written by Lara Shapiro, and directed by Noah Emmerich. This was Shapiro's first writing credit, and Emmerich's first directing credit. [3]

Emmerich was interested in directing since the first season. On the advice of the crew, he spend the second half of the first season and the entire second season to prepare. For this, he shadowed the actors and watched the process of the production, for which he was granted the opportunity to direct for the third season. [4] He explained, "I guess the most overwhelming takeaway is how many moving parts and how much work it is to get them all aligned and working together and how much work it is." [5]

Reception

Viewers

In its original American broadcast, "Walter Taffet" was seen by an estimated 1.22 million household viewers with a 0.4 in the 18-49 demographics. This means that 0.4 percent of all households with televisions watched the episode. [6] This was a 31% increase in viewership from the previous episode, which was watched by 0.93 million household viewers with a 0.2 in the 18-49 demographics. [7]

Critical reviews

"Walter Taffet" received extremely positive reviews from critics. Alan Sepinwall of HitFix wrote, "As a rookie Americans director, Emmerich acquitted himself well throughout the hour, but particularly in the sequence where Martha realizes that Aderholt, Gaad and Stan have discovered the bug she planted in Gaad's office on behalf of Clark." [8]

Erik Adams of The A.V. Club gave the episode an "A" grade and praised Emmerich's directing, "He acquits himself marvelously, probably because he's working off such a strong template. It also helps that Emmerich was handed season three's second firecracker of an episode." [9] Laura Hudson of Vulture gave the episode a 3 star rating out of 5 and wrote, "This season of The Americans has often felt ominously smooth, as though its characters were in the midst of a slow-motion fishtail toward some unknown catastrophe. I suspect that later, when we look back, this will be the episode where things really start to turn." [10]

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References

  1. ↑ "Review: 'The Americans' Season 3 Episode 7, 'Walter Taffet,' Brings Trouble". IndieWire . March 11, 2015.
  2. ↑ ""The Americans": interesting story arc on "Walter Taffet"". People's World . March 13, 2015.
  3. ↑ "(#307) "Walter Taffet"". The Futon Critic. Retrieved August 17, 2023.
  4. ↑ Sepinwall, Alan (March 11, 2015). "'The Americans' Star Noah Emmerich Talks His Directorial Debut in One of the Season's Best Episodes". Yahoo! Entertainment. Retrieved August 17, 2023.
  5. ↑ Sepinwall, Alan (March 11, 2015). "'The Americans' co-star Noah Emmerich on directing his first episode". HitFix . Retrieved August 17, 2023.
  6. ↑ Kondolojy, Amanda (March 12, 2015). "Wednesday Cable Ratings: 'Dual Survival' & NBA Basketball Top Night, + 'Catfish', 'Mob Wives' & More". TV by the Numbers. Archived from the original on March 17, 2015. Retrieved August 17, 2023.
  7. ↑ Cantor, Brian (March 5, 2015). "Ratings: FX's "The Americans" Rises Slightly from Last Week's Low". Headline Planet. Archived from the original on March 7, 2015. Retrieved August 17, 2023.
  8. ↑ Sepinwall, Alan (March 11, 2015). "Review: 'The Americans' – 'Walter Taffet': Never break the chain". HitFix . Retrieved August 17, 2023.
  9. ↑ Adams, Erik (March 11, 2015). "The Americans: "Walter Taffet"". The A.V. Club . Retrieved August 17, 2023.
  10. ↑ Hudson, Laura (March 11, 2015). "The Americans Recap: Chains Keep Us Together". Vulture . Retrieved August 17, 2023.
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