Poor Frank…what a mess. His "I finally got what I wanted by fucking everyone I love’ moment comes while talking to his best friend, then sends the mole off.
i suspect that when Charlie realizes that Frank saved his ass then Charlie might save Frank’s and they work together.
John Hickey (Frank) is clearly the best actor in the show. they won’t loose him.
Ashley Zukerman (Charlie) has certainly shown good acting as the character developed.
so even though a historical soap it may still stay good enough.
any security guards that let a shiny car through because some unknown guy in a suit says so should be shot.
the microphone thing seems a little Hogan Hero.
Has anyone else been watching the marathon on WGN today? There are a lot of little bits & pieces I missed seeing the episodes the first time around. For example I had no idea that Helen is actually Dutch, not American. She has no accent at all. Presumably she came over as a young adult for university seeing as now neither patent immigrated. It certainly makes that polygraph question about passing secrets to “the government of occupied Holland” less random; thought I can’t tell if they were referring to the Dutch-government-in-exile or the Reichskommissariat Niederlande. 
The actress who plays Helen - Katja Herbers - is from Amsterdam. With her hairstyle she reminds me a lot of Bailey Quarters (Jan Smithers) from WKRP.
The show was renewed for another season - which is good because they haven’t built anything yet. We’ll presumably see Frank Winter (last seen being driven off with a potato sack over his head) again. Daniel Stern, alas, may not return though Toby Zi - I mean Richard Shiff - will certainly be back.
It took me a very long time to get around to this show. I’m sorry I waited so long.
There is one actress I had never heard of before - Rachel Brosnahan.
She was in one scene around the 43 minute mark of S01E01.
She gave one of the most intense and powerful performances in that scene that I had ever saw. (didn’t want to provide a stupid pun).
If you want to be an actor, just take a look at that one scene. It just knocked me flat on my ass. Amazing!
I find this show very frustrating. On the one hand, the production qualities, acting, and dialog are top notch, and it’s set in a fascinating period in history.
On the other hand, the way people act has absolutely no connection to real life. Or, for that matter, to how those same people acted previously.
This was particularly true in this week’s episode.
-A massively important scientific experiment fails, and instead of a team of people poring over reams of data that they gathered from the copious monitoring that was going on, you have one guy in a shed staring at pieces of bomb casing
-The British have no interest in Japan. Umm, have you read even a page of actual WW2 history?
-Frank, who in season 1 was so gung ho about building the bomb because of how many soldiers were dying every day, has suddenly switched to having an unbelievably precious 21st century pacifist anti-nuke attitude?
-Of course there will be scientists on the targeting committee. When no one knows exactly how the weapon is going to work that’s just a necessity. And in fact in real life, it seems there were far more scientists (including Opponheimer and von Neumann) than non-scientists: Atomic Bomb: Decision -- Target Committee, May 10-11, 1945
Just dumb, dumb writing.
Well, I think most of those can be explained.
Meeks tells Fritz that Charlie has sent most of the scientists back to the Hill to recheck their work. That leaves Charlie and Frank alone in a room where it’s more dramatic.
When Hogarth says “Our war is over, we have no quarrel with the Japs,” I think he’s referring to himself and Paul. Like they’ve pretty much gotten all the secret files they need, so there’s no point sticking around.
I think Frank started out concerned about the war dead, but that changes once Colonel Duck shows Frank the Magpie report. From that point on, beating the Germans to the bomb becomes his main concern. Then he finds out the Army has been lying to him all this time; the Germans aren’t nearly as close to the bomb as the Allies are. With that pressure off, he does what he always has done- push the bomb development in the direction that he wants it go.
About the Target Committee thing… dramatic license is a necessary evil.
So is anyone a little confused by the references to Tuesday’s episode as the season finale? :dubious: If we’re already at the Trinity test where does a 3rd season go? The Hiroshima was less than a month later.
I think it’s fairly likely that this will be the final season, although I don’t think we’ve heard officially one way or the other.
