Tonight at a glance
- Length
- 6 seasons · 75 episodes
- Status
- Ended · complete
- Age rating
- TV-MA
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
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.
- spy
- washington dc
- usa
- undercover
- fbi
- cold war
- kgb
- period drama
- russian spy
- 1980s
- dramatic
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Susan Misner
- Noah Emmerich
- Dylan Baker
- Costa Ronin
- Frank Langella
- Brandon J. Dirden
- Annet Mahendru
- Lev Gorn
- Margo Martindale
- Richard Thomas
- Alison Wright
- Directed
- Kari Skogland, Gregory Hoblit, Jim McKay, Sylvain White, Roxann Dawson, Alex Chapple & 26 more
- Created
- Joe Weisberg
- Written
- Sneha Koorse, Joel Fields, Stuart Zicherman, Sarah Nolen, Stephen Schiff, Justin Weinberger & 11 more
Production
- Rating
- 7.9 / 10 · 1,091 ratings
- Network & studio
- FX, DreamWorks Television, Nemofilms, Amblin Television, Fox Television Studios, Fox 21 Television Studios
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
