FX’s The Americans, the under-watched but very compelling drama about husband and wife undercover KGB spies in suburban Washington, DC in the early 1980s, concludes its fourth season tonight.
Inter-mixed in this season’s drama about the FBI’s discovery one of their secretaries had been turned into a Soviet agent and a still-ongoing plot about obtaining a biological agent being developed by a U.S. laboratory, the program showed a side of the Soviet Union rarely, if ever, seen on U.S. television: the method and speed in which the Soviets killed those who helped the U.S. and how Soviet technological incompetence almost led to a nuclear attack on America.
For this video, I’ve clipped two informative scenes from the fourth season set in 1983:
>> This video clipped to illustrate a post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog <<