Among the best things about the vast proliferation of channels and content creators and the fact that there is too much out there distracting us, is that this demand for content creates a demand for actors that otherwise would just not exist.  You know, there are no second chapters in American lives and all that. This was decidedly true for actors when I was a kid.  Like, there was actual contempt for anyone who had once had a successful show and then had the nerve to try and have another successful show.  Oh sure, there were exceptions, Mary Tyler Moore, Newhart, but in general we wanted those people to know their god damned place and their god damned place was to just have that one show, be pigeonholed, and never be allowed to do any other work ever again because no one wanted to see them in anything other than what made them famous in the first place.  There is just too much out there now though to force someone who was on a mild popular 5th network TV show in the late 90’s to sit out the rest of her life now, and thus we get Keri Russell getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame this week.  Which is fantastic for her but more fantastic is that she has been given such an opportunity to show her quite frankly fantastic skills as an actor.  The work she does on the Americans is top notch.  It’s a quality show, another benefit of all the stuff out there now, there is just more quality programming. The percentage of good to bad is probably the same but you know 10% of 1000 shows means a lot more good than 10% of 100 shows.  Anyway, it’s funny because of course as an actress ages they are typically forced into a Mom role, which I guess is sorta what Keri Russell is playing here, but again, the benefit of there just being more is it means we actually get moms that are interesting characters.  That are defined by more than being the mom on the show.  She’s the mom but it isn’t her identity.  And we get to see great work from her and it is very exciting and I am glad she has a star on the walk of fame.  It’s nice that almost 20 years a good actor is still getting work.  It feels like that’s the way things always should have been.  Today I want to fuck Keri Russell.