The Americans is an American television period drama series created and produced by former CIA officer Joe Weisberg.[2] The series premiered in the United States on January 30, 2013 on the cable network FX. Set in the early 1980s during the Cold War, The Americans is the story of Elizabeth (Keri Russell) and Philip Jennings (Matthew Rhys), two Soviet KGB officers posing as an American married couple living in the northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C., with their children Paige (Holly Taylor) and Henry (Keidrich Sellati) and their neighbor Stan Beeman (Noah Emmerich), an FBI agent working in counterintelligence. Concept.......... The Americans, a fictional period piece set during the Reagan administration, was created by Joe Weisberg, a former CIA officer.[2] The series focuses on the personal and professional lives of the Jennings family – a married couple of two Soviet deep-cover sleeper agents placed in the Washington, DC area in the 1960s and their (unsuspecting) American-born children. The story picks up shortly after the two parents are activated in the early 1980s. The show's creator has described the series as being ultimately about a marriage. The Americans is at its core a marriage story. International relations is just an allegory for the human relations. Sometimes, when you're struggling in your marriage or with your kid, it feels like life or death. For Philip and Elizabeth, it often is."[7] Executive producer Joel Fields described the series as working different levels of reality: the fictional world of the marriage between Philip and Elizabeth, and the real world involving the characters' experiences during the Cold War.[7] Working at the CIA, which Weisberg later described as a mistake, has helped him develop several storylines in the series,[8] basing some plot lines on real-life stories,[8] and integrating several things he learned in his training, such as dead drops and communication protocols.[9].....snip~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Am...2013_TV_series) What do you think about this TV Series the Americans, Who are Russians. WAPO gave out praise to the series and the Concept. I think many of our liberal brethren have been tuning into FOX and watching this show. Hence all their talk about Russians. I haven't seen the show other than the Commercials for it. But I laugh every time they show them and think of the Demos and their talk about Trump and the Russians. Of course then our illiberals around here.
I love the show. I love how Reagan totally freaks out the Russkies! Ahh...this new cold war is just a pale imitation of the real one...
Even NPR was telling people to tune into it. Cold War Spy Series 'The Americans' Taps Into Today's Concerns About Russia..... Last week, when news surfaced about various meetings between the Russian ambassador and members of Donald Trump's campaign, Huffington Post editor Howard Fineman appeared on MSNBC and said, "If you think the Russian ambassador is just an ambassador, you haven't been watching The Americans." Well, I have been watching — and it's been fascinating from the start. But now, with Cold War intrigue hotter than it's been in decades, many curious new viewers are likely to flock to this series. Based on the three episodes available for preview, the season features an overarching story about a possible U.S. plot to damage the Soviet wheat crops. But what really counts on The Americans, as always, are the dynamics within this quiet family suburb. ABC also gave us a 1987 miniseries called Amerika. It was set in the near future, and depicted life in the U.S. after the Soviets had succeeded in mounting a bloodless coup, with the President being a mere pawn for his Russian manipulators......snip~ http://www.npr.org/2017/03/07/519025...s-about-russia
I really like the show! I have often wondered what it was like to have lived in a time where all out nuclear war was a very real possibility.
I have seen only the previews of it.....I had just got back from NAM in 79. Although.....I don't care for the Idea of calling Russians, the Americans. Moreover politically.....I think the left should pass on the show nowadays. Maybe wait until they come out of their McCarthy phase first.
Best TV show I've ever seen. Except for Better Call Saul. And The Sopranos. No, I'd say Better Call Saul is the greatest.
