The Americans
Spy drama series
*The Americans* is an American television drama series (2013–2018) following two Soviet KGB officers posing as a married couple in suburban Washington, D.C., during the Cold War.
The show explored themes of identity, loyalty, and the personal costs of espionage: *The Americans* is considered one of the best spy dramas ever made.
More broadly, "the Americans" simply refers to people from the United States, or sometimes inhabitants of North or South America collectively.
- USANorth American nation, abbr.
- spy thrillerFiction featuring secret agents
- spiesSecret intelligence gatherers
- Cold WarProlonged East-West standoff
- KGBUSSR intelligence service
FX · Soviet · nuclear secrets · covert operations · dead drop · safe house · undercover · disguises · Reagan · embassy · tradecraft · sleeper agents · double life · FBI · Washington · wigs · Elizabeth · Philip
- political fictiondystopia, utopia, Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1984, dystopian fiction
- Cold WarBerlin Wall, Iron Curtain, arms race, Warsaw Pact, Cuban Missile Crisis
The AmericansAustin Powers
American, Americans, America, Americas, Americanize, Americanization, Americanism