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The Americans
TV Show
The Americans is a period spy drama television series set in the United States.1)
Creator
Joe Weisberg developed it for the FX television network.2)
Plot
The series takes place during the Cold War. It tells the narrative of Elizabeth (Keri Russell) and Philip Jennings (Matthew Rhys), two Soviet KGB intelligence officials posing as an American married couple living in Falls Church, Virginia, a Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C., with their children, Paige (Holly Taylor) and Henry (Matthew Rhys) (Keidrich Sellati).3)
FBI and KGB
The show also delves into the rivalry between the FBI office in Washington and the KGB Rezidentura there.4)
Headline
It follows both sides' agents, notably Jennings' neighbor Stan Beeman (Noah Emmerich), an FBI agent engaged in counterintelligence.5)