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NOT A SPOILER, SPECULATION. I BELIEVE THE RUSSIAN SPIES TRAINED TO LIVE HER AND BECOME LIKE AMERICANS, WILL ACTUALLY BECOME REAL AMERICANS AT THE END OF THE SERIES BECAUSE THINGS WILL GO SOUR FOR THEM IN RUSSIA AND BECAUSE THEY WANT THEIR KIDS TOI STAY THERE. ANY OTHER THEORIES?

"We all struggle with questions of our true identity, our identity with our loved ones, and our public personas," says Joe Weisberg, the creator of FX's cold-war drama The Americans, which begins its final season on March 28, in an exclusive interview with Reason's Nick Gillespie. "In this final season, that all comes to a head for the characters, who have to deal with it in their careers as spies, challenging their loyalty to their family, but also testing it against their loyalty to one another in their marriage, and their loyalty to their country, and their core idealistic beliefs."

Yuri Drozdov once said it could take up to seven years to train an "illegal", the Soviet spies planted abroad under false or assumed identities, sometimes for decades. As former chief of the KGB intelligence agency's Directorate S, which managed the illegals programme, Drozdov knew more than most about what it took to prepare someone for the task. He had to train Soviet agents to talk, think and act, even subconsciously, like the regular American, Brit, German or Frenchman they would become from the moment they touched down on foreign soil. ---SNIP--- Yuri Drozdov, then a young KGB agent based...

The GOP has a race problem. White people. Working class whites, who make up half of the Republican voters, are rebelling against the Republican orthodoxies of free trade and trickle down economics that have turned their communities into ghost towns. Shocked by their support of Donald Trump, some elitist conservative thinkers are calling places like Garbutt, NY pockets of misery, welfare fraud and dope addiction. They say let these towns die. Turns out Garbutt is not like that at all.

Creator of ‘The Americans’ Funds the Anti-Bibi CampaignPosted By Ronn Torossian On February 3, 2015 @ 12:21 am In Daily Mailer,FrontPage | 1 Comment With Israeli elections set for March 17, 2015, current polls show a dead heat between PM Netanyahu’s Likud Party, and the center/left party the “Zionist Camp.”  Headlines – rightfully – are blaring about the foreign intervention of funders including the State Department, a slew of extreme left-wing foundations, including the Ford Foundation, and celebrities including Joel Fields, the creator of the hit-TV Show The Americans, working on the campaign which is supposedly focused on electing anyone...

Has anyone been watching this show? Last nite at 10:00 EST would have been the third installment. I'm curious what others around here think of it but I'd rather not come out and say what I'm thinking just yet. (Hint: Posted in chit/chat maybe for a reason.)

In August, Rupert Murdoch's FX picked up a Cold War series set in the 1980s titled "The Americans." Liberals might have braced themselves for the worst. It sounded like some kind of Chuck Norris-style "jingoistic" homage to freedom-loving intelligence agents. But this is Hollywood, so the show instead focuses on KGB spies who speak perfect English, working to destroy Reagan-era America, which is not altogether a bad thing to people in Hollywood. Joe Weisberg, who worked for more than three years at the CIA, first wrote a script about two CIA case officers stationed in Bulgaria. Fox bought that script,...

FX is set to debut the first episode of its new Cold War-era spy drama, "The Americans," on Wednesday night at 10 p.m. ET. Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys star in the series as typical suburban parents living near Washington, D.C., towards the start of the Reagan administration. The catch? This seemingly-average couple happen to be a set of Russian spies. Reviews for the first several episodes of "The Americans" are in and have been, for the most part, fairly flattering towards the series. "The Americans" has been met with praise for balancing tense moments of espionage with the spy...

Surely, you have received at least one forwarded email, which is a tribute to "The Americans." The text is a heart-pumping, pride-swelling rebuke to the world, which has been overly critical of America, and was purportedly written by a Canadian journalist. If you have never received one of these, then all of your friends must live in France, Germany, or that America loving bastion in South America, which is run by Mister Potato Head himself, Hugo Chavez. We all watched in nauseating horror as our towering giants shattered, and fell onto a smoldering rendition of hell on earth. Before the...

The Americanswritten by Gordon SinclairThe United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany. It has declined there by 41% since 1971 and this Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least-appreciated people in all the world. As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtse. Well, Who rushed in with men and money to help? The Americans did, that's...