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To: Captain Peter Blood

I would recommend “The Americans”. The full series is available on Amazon Prime.
It is about a couple who are deep cover Soviet spies in Washington D.C. in the eighties. It is one of my favorite series that I have watched streaming. Great acting, great characters, and really riveting stories.


5 posted on 06/15/2019 11:50:57 AM PDT by Big Red Clay (Greetings from the Big Red State)
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To: Big Red Clay

That was a great show.


13 posted on 06/15/2019 12:11:48 PM PDT by Rusty0604 (2020 four more years!)
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To: Big Red Clay

“The Americans,” is excellent. Right now I’m hooked on “Turn: Washington’s Spies” on Netflix, a dramatization of the Culper spy ring during the American Revolution. It’s very well done, and has several quite overt references to the confiscation of private firearms and the consequences thereof.


18 posted on 06/15/2019 12:33:08 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: Big Red Clay

Loved the Americans. Wife is Russian ex-pat and I tease her that she is a deep cover spy that failed because she chose me as her target. Also starting to get into Hanna on Amazon Prime. Loved the movie.


33 posted on 06/15/2019 1:22:21 PM PDT by RainMan (rainman)
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To: Big Red Clay

The Americans was very good, although I really wanted to see Elizabeth’s face when the Soviet Union collapsed and the Berlin Wall came down. She was such a dead ender.


35 posted on 06/15/2019 1:35:19 PM PDT by Cecily
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To: Big Red Clay

It’s excellent.


67 posted on 06/15/2019 3:28:48 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Big Red Clay; All
The Americans was excellent, although after that last "job" that Elizabeth did by herself, involving that Russian Hockey player and his girlfriend and that little kid watching The March of the Wooden Soldiers from Babes in Toyland at the moment, I so, so so wanted it to end when Stan finally caught up to them in that parking garage.

Protagonists or not, right there, both of them, and the commie indoctrinated daughter too, with finality and extreme prejudice, and redemption for Stan, too, for being so late to figure things out...

But, it was what it was...

Also "Turn" was excellent... Major Hewlett was the coolest character of all in the end, followed by Whatshername, Heather Lind's character.

Honorable mention for bravery goes to Major Andre, even though he was a redcoat. And speaking of a tough job, how does any actor play George Washington and do him justice?

Haven't seen any of these other programs, might look for them on Prime.

111 posted on 06/16/2019 3:00:19 PM PDT by OKSooner (Shoot the coyotes.)
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To: Big Red Clay

americans

counterpart

a few BBC productions tied for third.


119 posted on 06/18/2019 8:42:07 PM PDT by morphing libertarian ( Use Comey's Report, Indict Hillary now; build Kate's wall. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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