Tag: Keri Russell

So the Americans is nearing it’s end. It’s very close and I just started the final season. I held off because I kind of didn’t want it to end but also because the show can be so tense that sometimes I almost need to prepare myself. I fear things will not end well for everyone. The show can be bleak but I am thankful for it. It is marvelous and I am still astounded by the job everyone does on it. Which is why I am posting Keri Russell. She is gorgeous of course but her performance in the show has always been such a revelation. It makes me wonder how many truly amazing actors are hiding on our TV screens and just not given enough to do that we ever realize the depths of their talent. This isn’t a slight against her previous work, I liked things like the Waitress and all, but when Felicity was this pop culture phenomena it was never because people were astounded by the acting. At least, I don’t remember that coming up. I guess I could be wrong because boy it’s been forever. The thing is though this show gives her something to work with and the story she can tell with just her face is profound. It’s really the great strength of television that it can give an actor the time to take a character and explore them in a way no other media can. The complexity and depth of the leads of this show are profound and so much of what we know about her character is never told to us. We can just see it in her face, in her actions, in how she responds. I am going to miss but I am also going to savor these last 10 episodes. Today I want to fuck Keri Russell.

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.

The Americans is the best show I watch that no one else I know watches.  Actually, it might just be the best show I watch currently.  It’s one of those strange beasts that is quite good and I feel like it gets some critical love but it seems to have no real talk around it.  Most high end cable dramas tend to invite all sorts of talk and buzz but this show never seems to have done that.  Last night was the end of another good season and as always it has me excited for the next one.  A year from now.  Keri Russell is very good in it but blows my mind when I think about what she plays here and what my idea of Keri Russell was before this show.  Anything else I saw her in previously she was a beam of sunshine.  She was always the cheery one, the sunny one.  It just seemed like her type.  It speaks to her performance that I can’t really get me brain to wrap around that Keri Russell and this Keri Russell being the same person.  She is fantastic but stoic and overly rational, not prone to emotion, certainly not chipper or sunny.  She is fantastic.  Really the entire cast is.  I just wish there were more Keri Russell pics out there cause I am so close to tapped out.  Anyway, I think you have a year to catch up on the show guys so get to it.  Today I want to fuck Keri Russell.

The Americans is back and I am almost a week late.  Like, I knew I had it sitting there to watch but then Daredevil and basketball and I kind of forgot.  Until lunch and it was like, “Oh right, I can watch this thing.  I love the show, it’s amazing.  I love Keri Russell’s performance.  It’s strange because it is hard to separate her from Felicity because the show was this whole phenomena.  I didn’t even watch it but it seemed it was everywhere, everyone was talking about it at the time.  And you know, I have seen other things with her in them and enjoyed it but she has always been mainly sunshine and goodness.  It always staggers me a little what a complex character she plays here, how dark it can be, and how human she makes it.  The acting on this show is just amazing and she is a huge part of that.  If the two main roles didn’t work everything would collapse.  She is just so good.  And also she is so pretty.  Like anyone she of course has changed a lot in the nearly 20 years she’s been famous but I think she’s gotten better looking as she’s aged.  Or maybe she is one of those people who kind of matures into her look, in that it just looks better on someone who looks like an adult rather than someone who can play a teenager.  I don’t know but she is gorgeous now.  So here she is.  Today I want to fuck Keri Russell.

I watch the Americans and it is a pretty amazing show on many levels.  It’s so very well done and put together and there is a lot of it that deserves praise.  For obvious reasons I am going to single out Keri Russell today.  She plays quite the complex character, at once cold and dispassionate while burning with an inner rage that she can’t quite suppress.  She conveys so much with just looks and body language, which is really a strength of a lot of the cast.  But what really stands out to me is that intellectually I understand this is the same actress who played the cheery, bright eyed college girl Felicity all those years ago but emotionally I just can’t seem to accept it.  I might know she is the same person but in my mind they have to be two different people.  And it’s not age, it’s just completely how different each character is and how differently Keri Russell plays them.  Now, I know we’re taking a 15 year gap here but it isn’t because she’s a mom in one and a college student in another, she just feels like a different human being.  Which is impressive because I watch a lot of TV and the same can’t be said for a lot of actors as they move from show to show.  So that is what I figured I would mention today.  That and the fact that she is beautiful, because she is beautiful.  And the fact that she plays a spy?  Yeah, maybe that adds a little sexiness but she is just gorgeous.  Today I want to fuck Keri Russell.

It still feels like a bit of a system shock that Keri Russell is now firmly entrenched in “mom” roles.  Or maybe that she fits them, she looks like a mom, she has the age, she has that sense of authority.  It is just scary because it feels like Felicity was not that long ago.  But then i remember it was 15 years ago now and I feel old.  Either way she is wonderful on the Americans which must start soon but now I can’t remember when.  Either way that’s fine because none of that is why she’s here.  She’s here because I had a dream about Keri Russell and how she was too smart for my clever tricks.  It is already fading but for some reason I was trying to convince her we would both be more comfortable if she got naked but she wasn’t buying my bullshit.  Anyway, she is gorgeous and on a show I love and mainly I felt like my brain was trying to tell me something so I won’t fight it, today I want to fuck Keri Russell.

So a lot of people won’t remember this but there was a point where there were only a handful of real channels.  I mean, cable was populated by channels but they weren’t really offering things like they do now, Comedy Central was all just recut stand up, Cartoon Network was old Hannah Barbara cartoons, TBS, TNT and their ilk fought over 1950’s sitcoms to throw on the air, and most of the rest showed old movies.  It was a wild time, guys, and my cable box only went up to 64!  This era slowly started to end but it still existed in the 90’s, which is how you could have a show become massively talked about while never being very highly rated, which would describe Felicity.  Seriously, everyone was talking about it, when Keri Russell cut her hair everyone had an opinion (the opinion was she should not have).  It feels like another world because in a way it was, the WB doesn’t even exist anymore and even if it did it would not have shows that were so talked about… almost nothing is so talked about anymore, there’s too much competition.  My basic point here isn’t really about TV but about the fact that I am old, Keri Russell is older than me but not so much older than me than she felt in 1998, and it is striking because she went from a fresh young face with her amazing curls to… playing the mom on TV.  More so, her playing the mom is not particularly unreasonable because she’s old enough, it’s just been that long.  But it is making me feel a little old.  So is the fact that finding pictures of her was surprisingly hard, her fame was before the rise of internet gossip so you have a lot of old magazine scans and now no one is that interested so you get… not much.  Stuff changes fast now.  Still, one thing I don’t think has changed is that she’s a very attractive women, I am watching the Americans (from what I am reading about the ratings it is just me and like her mom who are watching) and really enjoying it.  She is playing the mom now but that’s ok because she’s still so pretty, which makes me feel a little better.  Anyway, my real point here has nothing to do with anything, it’s just that today I want to fuck Keri Russell.