All's fair in love and cold war.
Set during the Cold War period in the 1980s, The Americans is the story of Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, two Soviet KGB officers posing as an American married couple in the suburbs of Washington D.C. and their neighbor, Stan Beeman, an FBI Counterintelligence agent.
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Character
Classical in form, earnest, grave and overwhelming.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- warmbleak
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“Is Philip Jennings the real protagonist?”
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“Did the finale betray the series?”
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Cast
- Keri RussellElizabeth Jennings
- Matthew RhysPhilip Jennings
- Holly TaylorPaige Jennings
- Keidrich SellatiHenry Jennings
- Noah EmmerichStan Beeman
- Costa RoninOleg Igorevich Burov
- Margo MartindaleClaudia
Crew
- Joe WeisbergCreator
- Nathan BarrOriginal Music Composer
- David WoodsProducer
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Seasons
- Season 113 eps · 2013
- Season 213 eps · 2014
- Season 313 eps · 2015
- Season 413 eps · 2016
- Season 513 eps · 2017
- Season 610 eps · 2018
Pairings
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