'The Americans': FX Asks Viewers to Root for KGB in Cold War Thriller
"It might be a little different to believe and get used to, but we want you to root for the KGB," said EP Joel Fields. "They're going to try to get the Soviets to win the Cold War."[...]
"If you tried to tell a story like this about al-Qaeda now, it would be impossible; no one would want to hear it," Fields continued. "I feel even the same could have been said up to 10 years after the cold war ended."
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"The show is about marriage and that marriage in an allegory for international relations," said creator Joe Weisberg. "And international relations are an allegory for marriage."
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"These were these really competing value systems," he said. "And there's no question that repressive socialism failed, but unbridled consumption hasn't exactly led to great satisfaction -- and one problem is how do we express that dramatically."
Well if that is his intention, he has failed in the couple of episode I have seen. The KGB is clearly the bad guys here. The Soviet spy couple are beginning to question their mission here and thinking America is a pretty good place. After all their kids are American in every way.
Yes, the creator from Sons of Anarchy is a conflicted leftist too. In fact, he had a pretty nasty reaction to a post I put on his blog. I told him that he needs to get out from the liberal swamp he lives in and meet real everyday Americans. He basically told me that he didn’t want people like me watching his show. I told him that his show despite his liberal indoctrination taught the exact opposite message that he intended. He is a pretty conflicted guy who could probably become a libertarian if ever could detach himself from Hollywood.