I am enjoying it. I’m guessing that a possible criticism might be in their showing Russian spies in too favorable a light. Short of turning them into cardboard cutouts of villains, I think the portrayal is necessary when you’re doing a show that centers around the spies.
A comedian (probably Seinfeld) did a bit about watching the Nature Channel and getting caught up in the point of view of whichever animal the show was about on a particular day.
When the show was about gazelles, he was rooting strongly for them to get away from the lions. Next episode is about lions, and he’s screaming—”C’mon—get that gazelle! Your babies are hungry!”
Keri Russell is still adorable, several decades after “Felicity.” And Matthew Rhys, who played a homosexual in the soap-opera-esque “Brothers and Sisters” is a revelation as a martial-arts-trained, tough-as-nails spy.
I think the show is one of the best new ones of the season.
“I’m guessing that a possible criticism might be in their showing Russian spies in too favorable a light.”
I was thinking the same, however it occured to me that even tho they are enjoying their life in America, they also have a blind devotion to “the mother country.” It reminds me of Obama drones and I can see how they don’t equate their joy to being the result of capitalism and liberty.
Then we also get to see the struggle of the husband in trying to reconcile that disconnect, but the wife pulling him back to drone status.
Yes, that criticism is certainly "possible." As in having the "low information voter" bunch taking the POV of America's enemies and rooting for them to win against loyal Americans, while mentally turning our own counter-espionage people into "enemies." I watched the first episode and was revolted by the total subversiveness of the concept.