'The Americans' prepares to take a final bow on FX
On a drizzly night in February, Keri Russell and Holly Taylor walked down a hilly block in Upper Manhattan that was doubling for Reagan-era Washington in a scene from of FX's spy thriller "The Americans."
Russell, in character as Elizabeth Jennings, a KGB agent living undercover in the United States in the waning days of the Cold War, was dispensing tough love to her daughter, Paige (Taylor), a college student sympathetic to the Soviet cause.
"You're going to have to make a decision: to commit to this life or get out, because sometimes this is what we have to do," said Russell as Elizabeth. "Are you willing to give up friends and relationships - your life, if you have to?"
The tension between the personal
