The Americans Is the Realest, and Scariest, Spy Show on TV

"The Americans" came back for a bloody season premiere that left our leads reeling. The biggest struggle that Elizabeth and Philip have faced as undercover KGB agents is how their double lives might affect their family.

In many ways, "The Americans" has it all: Sex, violence, Cold War intrigue, Reagan-era fashions (oh, that hair!), marriage as metaphor, Margo Martindale … the list goes on and on. If it weren't on FX and full of Americans, you'd think it had been made

When we last left Elizabeth (Keri Russell) and Philip (Matthew Rhys) things were a mess. It was nothing you wouldn't expect from two K.G.B. agents posing as an American couple living in a cul-de-sac outside Reagan-era 

The Best Soundtrack Moments Of February 2014: True Detective, The Americans, Guardians Of. Last month, I lead into this saying how January has a bad reputation for new movies. But it's really February that's the wasteland, 

“The Americans,” which returns Wednesday on FX, has a sly title that suggests how deeply deceptive this thriller is at its core. The series isn't about C.I.A. spies; it's about two Soviet agents posing as an ordinary American couple during the Reagan