The Americans
All's fair in love and cold war.
The Americans (2013-2018)
Seasons: 6,
episodes: 75
Average rating:
8.3/10
143 541
Production
Status
Completed
Creators
Scenario
Tracey Scott Wilson
Author
Composer
Producer
Actors
Keri Russell
Elizabeth Jennings
Matthew Rhys
Philip Jennings
Holly Taylor
Paige Jennings
Keidrich Sellati
Henry Jennings
Susan Misner
Sandra Beeman
Noah Emmerich
Stan Beeman
Dylan Baker
William Crandall
Costa Ronin
Oleg Igorevich Burov
Short description
Set during the Cold War period in the 1980s, The Americans is the story of Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, two Soviet KGB officers posing as an American married couple in the suburbs of Washington D.C. and their neighbor, Stan Beeman, an FBI Counterintelligence agent.
Seasons
| Season | Episodes | Release date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
Season 1 In 1980s Washington, D.C., KGB sleeper agents Philip and Elizabeth Jennings take extreme measures to continue their mission and keep their true identities hidden when Stan Beeman, an FBI Counterintelligence agent, moves in across the street from them.
|
13 | 2013-01-30 | 7.8 |
Season 2 Technological advances have escalated Cold War tensions to an all-time high, and Philip and Elizabeth face the growing threat of discovery. As their assignments grow more deadly, their family is in more danger, and their loyalties are tested like never before.
|
13 | 2014-02-26 | 7.8 |
Season 3 In season three, Philip and Elizabeth find themselves at odds over their daughter’s future now that the KGB is determined to recruit her and FBI Agent Stan Beeman has rededicated himself to uncovering the identities of the Russian spies.
|
13 | 2015-01-28 | 7.8 |
Season 4 Philip and Elizabeth are tasked with infiltrating U.S. biological and chemical weapons research. Stan and the FBI get closer to finding out who bugged Gaad's office.
|
13 | 2016-03-16 | 7.8 |
Season 5 In season five, the arranged marriage of Philip and Elizabeth Jennings grows more passionate and genuine in the midst of the escalating Cold War. Paige’s budding romance with Matthew, the son of their neighbor, FBI Agent Stan Beeman, further complicates matters since Stan – Philip’s best friend –…
|
13 | 2017-03-07 | 7.8 |
Season 6 In the sixth and final season, Philip and Elizabeth’s ability to protect their cover and family’s safety deteriorates. The Jennings struggle to maintain a smokescreen of normalcy, especially around their son who remains ignorant of the spies in his midst. With Gorbachev in power in the Soviet Uni…
|
10 | 2018-03-28 | 8.7 |
What's left behind the scenes
- In the first season, the opening credits of each episode feature the Russian phrase 'Youth Wins' (Молодость побеждает). This inscription is absent in subsequent seasons. In 1928, a film titled 'Youth Wins' (Молодежь побеждает) was released in the USSR, directed by Mikhail Gelovani, a Soviet Georgian theater and film actor and director.
- To a certain extent, the series' plot is based on real events that unfolded in 2010 involving a network of Russian agents embedded in the US many years prior. Some of them had started families, and their closest relatives, neighbors, and colleagues had no idea they were spies. These individuals were arrested but were later returned to Russia in exchange for several Americans.
- The series was created and written by Joe Weisberg. Between 1990 and 1994, Weisberg worked for the CIA. Like any script written by a former CIA employee, this one had to be submitted to a special commission for approval.
- Anette Mahendru, who played Nina Krilova, speaks six languages: German, English, Russian, French, Persian, and Hindi, as she spent her childhood and youth in various countries around the world. The actress joked that she was cast in the series simply because the producers decided she actually looked like a spy.
- Despite the series' fairly average ratings, John Landgraf, the head of FX Networks, allowed it to run for all six seasons originally planned by the showrunners, although many other networks would have canceled such a project long ago.
- Keri Russell (who played Elizabeth Jennings) was eight months pregnant when filming for the fourth season ended. The creators managed to hide her pregnancy by setting most of the season's action in winter (so that winter clothing concealed the pregnancy) and, at times, by using CGI to slightly alter her silhouette.
- At first, Noah Emmerich declined the role of Stan because he was quite tired of playing law enforcement officers. He was convinced to read the script once more and think it over by his friend and fellow director Gavin O'Connor.
- The crew occasionally failed to recognize Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys in their costumes, mistaking them, at best, for supporting actors. Once, someone began calling for the lead actors over a megaphone, after which Rhys approached the person, tapped them on the shoulder, and told them that they had 'been here for a long time.'
Auditions in India
Casting calls in USA
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