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The marriage was arranged, and they're actually KGB agents spying on America, administering oral sex to government officials to extract information, that kind of thing. Well, it's better than waterboarding. The one they've been chasing and now captured is another KGB agent who defected, and they're shipping him back to the mother country where he'll be dealt with exterminated, I think.

Oh, except they've missed the boat, literally, so now they've got to take him home with them, and keep him in the trunk of the gold Oldsmobile, where he remains for this whole opening episode.

Well, until he's dealt with, impressively, at the end. It's tricky, trying to be normal Americans when you've got a Russian prisoner in the car in the garage — the same garage where the kids, who really are normal Americans, keep their skateboards etc. Even trickier when an FBI officer moves in across the road. And is that even a coincidence? The C in the title — The Americans — is done as a hammer and sickle. Nice touch. If there's a reciprocal series about American spies living in Moscow, they can star-spangle up the US in The Russians … Actually, that's unlikely — I don't think American spy families have ever lived as Muscovites in Moscow, have they?

Whereas Joe Weisberg, the former CIA officer who conceived The Americans, was inspired to do so by the spy ring of Russian sleeper agents who came to light in , remember?

Weisberg simply shifted the action back to the cold war when Russian spies were more of a real and scary threat. I did it without thinking. Elizabeth and Philip Jennings are failing.

Summoned to…. The queasy fear at the heart of The Americans is that it was always going to come down to this: Spy versus spy,…. The slow burn was always going to be a challenge as The Americans entered its end game. When so much time and so…. When The Americans plucks at the heartstrings, it sure finds a unique way of doing so. Or, to quote the showrunners,…. As Gabriel leaves America and, it appears, The Americans , everyone talks of sacrifice. Picking up from the…. The Americans still knows how to pull off a surprise.

The A. Inspired by James Warner Bellah's "The Valiant Virginians", a book that had previously been serialized in "The Saturday Evening Post", this series focused on the impact war has on the young men fighting it.

Bellah's stories were about the smaller incidents that impacted the regular soldier, not just the officers, and this show reflected this sensibility. Add content advisory. User reviews 23 Review. Top review. A forgotten gem. I loved this show when I was a kid, and I remember being very disappointed when it was taken off the air. I remember that it was a gripping drama, and that it held my attention even though I was very young at the time and not too interested in anything other than comedies and cartoons.

I also remember my mother complaining once that it was too violent, so maybe this had something to do with its appeal. Surprisingly, it doesn't seem to have made much of an impression on anyone else, because I've never met anyone else who even remembers it, so I'm glad to see so many positive reviews of the show here.

I would love to see this show again. It must have been a good show, because I haven't forgotten it in 44 years, and I was only 6 or 7 years old when it aired. PontiacGTO17 Jan 18, Details Edit. Release date January 23, United States.

United States. The Fighting Canfields. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - W. Washington Blvd. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 1 hour. Black and White. Related news.