Another episode airs tonight of FX’s The Americans. Last week, the historic drama set in 1981, portrayed a successive KGB effort to discredit a Polish priest, who is leading an anti-Soviet liberation movement, by smearing him as a rapist during his visit to New York City. (“The Reagan administration doesn’t want a rapist leading the movement to push the Soviets out of Poland.”)
The March 13 installment of the series also featured an actual real-life clip of President Ronald Reagan hailing the people of Poland: “We, the people of the free world, stand as one with our Polish brothers and sisters.”
The Americans is centered around husband and wife KGB undercover agents (Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell as “Philip and Elizabeth Jennings”) who live with their kids as ordinary Americans in suburban Washington, DC when Reagan becomes President.
(The Americans runs Wednesday nights at 10 PM EDT/PDT on FX, with an immediate re-run afterward. After a week off next week, it will resume on April 3.)
In this episode, “Philip” leaves his wife behind and travels to New York City to run the operation with “Ann,” another Westernized KGB agent with whom he was in love in the Soviet Union before being assigned to the United States twenty years earlier.
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