Russia’s Controversial Knockoff of <em>The Americans</em>
As FX’s spy drama ends, an overseas imitation imagines a CIA sleeper cell wreaking havoc in Moscow.
by Kevin Volkl
May 10, 2018
2 minutes
ordinary times, the Russian television series might have received little attention. When it premiered on Russian network television, in October, it seemed like just another rip-off of a foreign show—in this case, the FX spy drama , now concluding . But amid real-world and extraterritorial , has become something more interesting: a
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