It’s time for The Americans to jump the shark.
Continue reading...Please let me join your spy scandal!
Eliot BorensteinThe Spy Who…oh, never mind.
Eliot BorensteinWhen Ryan Fogle, Third Secretary at the American Embassy in Moscow, was arrested for attempting to recruit a Russian security-services officer, the world sat up and took notice. Then it snickered and sat down again.
Continue reading...Meanwhile, Back in “The Americans”…
Eliot BorensteinThis is Cold War paranoia packaged for viewers who are secure in the knowledge that the two superpowers will definitely not blow each other up, and that nothing Felicity does for her Soviet masters can turn “morning in America” into a prelude to nuclear winter.
Continue reading...Spies Like U.S.: “The Americans” and the Americans
Eliot BorensteinOn the face of things, “The Americans” should be pressing all sorts of buttons in the American psyche: crypto-communists! danger in the suburbs! our neighbors hate our freedoms! Moreover, since the Soviet agents and our main point-of-view characters, the show is implicitly asking us to root for the KGB. Why isn’t Fox News all over this?
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