The Americans' Final Season: Q&A with the Creators Behind the Cold War Spy Drama
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- Опубликовано: 24 окт 2024
- Executive Producers Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields discuss their critically acclaimed show, ideology, and how technology is ushering in the golden era of television.
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"We all struggle with questions of our true identity, our identity with our loved ones, and our public personas," says Joe Weisberg, the creator of FX's cold-war drama The Americans, which begins its 6th and final season on March 28, in an exclusive interview with Reason's Nick Gillespie. "In this final season, that all comes to a head for the characters, who have to deal with it in their careers as spies, challenging their loyalty to their family, but also testing it against their loyalty to one another in their marriage, and their loyalty to their country, and their core idealistic beliefs."
Since 2013, The Americans has revisited 1980s America and Cold War politics with a depth and nuance usually reserved for PBS documentaries. The first season begins in the early Reagan years, when the Cold War seemed forever on the verge of escalating into nuclear war.
The show follows the lives of Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, two Soviet sleeper agents whose cover is running a travel agency in the Northern Virginia suburbs near Washington, D.C. Their days are spent booking vacation packages and schlepping kids to school, and their nights are filled with deadly honeypot espionage setups, betrayals by and of close associates, and thefts of state secrets. Complicating matters is the presence of Stan Beeman, their neighbor who just happen to be an FBI agent working to infiltrate Soviet spy rings in America.
The Americans is at once deeply serious and darkly comic, a domestic drama that plays out against the backdrop of the 20th century's twilight struggle. Gillepie recently sat down with Weisberg and Joel Fields, an executive producer and one of its lead writers, to discuss the genesis and meaning of the series, their thoughts on the Cold War, how changing technology is leading to better television, and what we can expect from the series' sixth and final season, which debuts on FX on March 28.
For a full transcript, links, and downloadable versions, visit: reason.com/rea...
Interview by Gillespie. Produced and edited by Meredith Bragg.
One of the best shows on TV. Love the Americans.
Gillespie’s smooth casualness while dropping an F-bomb during a serious interview is the sort of thing that sets Reason apart.
Another great interview Nick, thanks man
Same age, never was worried about a "nuclear armaggedon". Nick, that stache is looking awfully 70's porn culture. Hope it grows out soon.
I'm 66. As a kid, we did Duck and Cover _regularly_ , as well as learning to _know_ where the nearest Fallout Shelter was at all times (obviously, I grew up in a major city [New York City proper]). When going into neighborhoods I was unfamiliar with, I was very careful to look for those yellow and black signs as I passed each building. Nobody was _ever_ without the knowledge of the nearest shelter!
Love the show
Awww. Gillespie is trying to grow a Stosselstache, how cute
Fantastic show...a must watch
Did it merit six seasons?
Yes.
It's a great show. But I wonder if they could fit Jar-Jar Binks in there somewhere for the sendoff. Just a thought.
Oh god, that mustach is HORRIBLE
Are Joe and Joel wearing nearly identical brown shirts on purpose?
Ummmm, all the metrics on the US economy are very good. WTF Gillespie ?
magentawave - those factors for GOVERNMENT debt and liabilities does not appear to be slowing down PRIVATE sector growth and job creation at this point in time. And BTW thanks Bush and Obama for that.
magentawave - yeah that shitshow started when Nixon decided to “temporarily” suspend the Breton Woods gold convertibility standard. BTW - look at Japan’s sovereign debt and unfunded liabilities; much worse than the USA !
@@petersouthernboy6327 Like hell. Obozo didn't do shit but bitch and moan. Thank god he's gone and Hillary went with him.*
Is Nick going under cover with that mustache?
ringo starr stunt double
Wow surprising Reason got this interview
I know right but reason are true capitalists not capitalists or communists/socialists who are good friends with govt
Morally equal?
This show worth a watch? I’m not familiar with it
Coming from a Reason reader: yes, the show is fantastic. Start from season 1.
An amazing show, one of my favorites. It starts a bit slow, so watch four or five episodes before you give up on it. It's on Amazon Prime for free.
shellsterdude Thank you for the reply. I’m definitely gonna have to watch season 1 now ha
marshaul awesome, shall do. Thanks
The show can be too subtle and too slow for some. Especially as the seasons go on after the first few. There are punctuated moments of intensity and violence throughout the series, but still not enough "happens" for some viewers. I binge-watched the first few seasons. Loved it, couldn't stop watching. Since then, I've been watching once a week as the remaining seasons have unfolded. It's become a "quieter" show, for a lack of a better way to describe it. More character study than wham-bam thrills at every turn.
Rest in *PIECES*
The_ProGamer Allahu Akbar!!
XDD
Rust in Peace.
The interviewer is a piece of work. I love their reaction to him saying the economy is in shambles and we have a mad man in the oval office. He shouldn't of made those statements. But you can tell he is in a leftist bubble and obviously thinks its just fine to say those things that are so subjective.
I never thought I would hear pseudo-communist apologetics from this channel. Even suggesting moral equivalence between the murderous, atheistic, imperialist, communist Soviet Union and America is absurd.