54. The Americans 3x12, ”I Am Abassin Zadran”

The drama just keeps escalating this season! Taking on the penultimate episode, John and Danielle consider The Americans Season 3 Episode 12, “I am Abassin Zadran.” There’s nowhere else to start but with Martha and Clark, but of course your hosts have to check in on Paige, since she’s acting out following the big reveal. In Glas, John and Danielle get into the choices around Abassin Zadran, and pick this thread up again in the Cave where John offers a rousing deep dive into Minoo Moallem’s “Whose Fundamentalism.” Building on the episode’s troubling themes of fundamentalism and an East/West divide, both John and Danielle TheoryShip Said’s Orientalism - a much needed text for many in this ep! It’s not ALL so heavy - they also ask whether Gabriel and Claudia were an item, and go on a bit of a diner deep dive (don’t act surprised!). 

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