You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy.™
The Americans. The new spy show on FX.
It’s unique because it makes you root for a bunch of Communists, pretending to be Patriotic Americans living in the United States.
That’s right. They are super secret double agents. They speak perfect English and live perfect America lives, and live in little American cookie cutter houses. But they are Russians, pretending to be Americans, working every day to destroy the United States while answering only to the Kremlin from deep inside the heart of the United States.
It takes some deep thought.
It’s like watching a show about pit vipers eating puppies and rooting for the pit vipers who are pretending to be lambs.
I want to hate the Ruskies, but I like them.
The double agent father likes America and has talked about defecting. “What’s not to like,” he says to his hot Russian wife.
His double agent wife is Red through and through. She hates Ronald Reagan, thinks he is crazy and wants to blow up the Soviet Union.
They have two American children, born in Washington D.C. who don’t realize their parents are really Russian double agents who hate the USA. The kids are Americans and live American lives while their parents spy against their American neighbors.
The Russian parents love their American kids and the kids love their parents, who are really Russian pretending to be Americans.
Got it?
Espionage, and Russian operatives and double agents.
And if that’s not enough, FBI agents live right next door to the Russians who are pretending to be travel agents.
There are FBI agents and call girls and crazy plots.
It’s like a fun house full of mirrors bombarded by a 100 strobe lights.
The Americans.
And that’s crazy.™