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The Americans

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The Americans	comment	The Americans is a television drama that aired on FX from 2013 to 2018. Created by former CIA operative Joe Weisberg, Keri Russell (Felicity) and Matthew Rhys (Brothers & Sisters) play Soviet deep cover agents masquerading as Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, a married couple living in the suburbs of northern Virginia in the early 1980s. Noah Emmerich plays Stan Beeman, an FBI counterintelligence agent hunting for Soviet spies like Mr. and Mrs. Jennings, and he's just moved in across the street.The series juggles the balance between the domestic and the spy plots, organically interweaving Philip and Elizabeth's concerns about their constructed marriage and family while they do their job as KGB agents.There are similarities with the film Little Nikita, but in this case being much more from the parents' perspective.
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The Americans / int_10a262e4	type	Headphones Equal Isolation
The Americans / int_10a262e4	comment	Headphones Equal Isolation: In "Pastor Tim", Phillip strangles a security guard at the back of an airport shuttle bus and the teenage girl near the front is wearing a Walkman and listening to "Tainted Love" doesn't hear it. It helps that Phillip is very quiet in his killing, as usual.
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The Americans / int_10cdfe4b	type	Fall Guy
The Americans / int_10cdfe4b	comment	Fall Guy: When a Soviet submarine sinks with all hands lost, the tragedy is caused by faulty propellers that were built based on plans copied by Philip and Elizabeth. The KGB is blamed for falling for a US trick and stealing defective plans deliberately planted by the Americans. Oleg uses his connections to discover the real truth: the submarine was rushed to sea without proper testing and the propellers were never designed to work with that type of submarine. However, since the official finding was that the plans were defective, the KGB will take the blame even if it was not really its fault.
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The Americans / int_1144041a	type	Strictly Professional Relationship
The Americans / int_1144041a	comment	Strictly Professional Relationship: Invoked. Philip is pretending to be an FBI Internal Affairs investigator and has convinced Martha, an FBI secretary, to help him investigate the counter-intelligence division. Martha is clearly attracted to him and he makes a big show of convincing her that he reciprocates her feelings while also reminding her they arenâ€™t allowed to be together.
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The Americans / int_11cdc5d8	type	White Anglo-Saxon Protestant
The Americans / int_11cdc5d8	comment	Elizabeth believes that "there's a weakness" among Americans (very specifically, the white middle class she occupies), and wants to subtly encourage her children to become socialists, or at least sympathetic to the radicals of the recent past who she admired deeply.
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The Americans / int_12dc4d97	type	Greedy Jew
The Americans / int_12dc4d97	comment	Greedy Jew: Alluded to by Philip in "The Deal" when he mentions the "shekels" he supposes an Israeli agent is working for.
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The Americans / int_133f1c12	type	The Spymaster
The Americans / int_133f1c12	comment	The Spymaster: General Zhukov, who runs Directorate S and is a father figure for Elizabeth.
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The Americans / int_13e1c444	type	Plot-Triggering Death
The Americans / int_13e1c444	comment	Plot-Triggering Death: Each of the first three seasons use this trope. In the pilot, a Directorate S agent that is on a mission with Phillip is killed. This tips the FBI off to the existence of Directorate S. In the second-season premiere, two more Directorate S agents that had met Phillip and Elizabeth for a mission are killed in their hotel room. The mystery of who was behind the murders drives the plot for the whole season. In the third-season premiere, Yousef falls into the KGB's clutches when Phillip confronts him immediately after Yousef murdered Annelise.
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The Americans / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
The Americans / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Stan after his confrontation with the Jennings in which he learns his next door neighbors and good friends are KGB spies and that his wife might be one as well. He lets the Jennings leave, returns to his house in a stupor and spends the rest of the night sitting in a chair watching his wife sleep looking completely broken.
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The Americans / int_15395adc	type	The Mistress
The Americans / int_15395adc	comment	The Mistress: Nina becomes Stan's in "Duty and Honor".
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The Americans / int_1606a707	type	Secret Test
The Americans / int_1606a707	comment	Secret Test: The Jennings parents are led to believe that their cover has been blown in "Trust Me" by KGB agents posing as FBI agents, to test if they are willing to betray the KGB (or if they have already).
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The Americans / int_166e33f3	type	Little Miss Badass
The Americans / int_166e33f3	comment	Little Miss Badass / Small Girl, Big Gun: In "Mutually Assured Destruction" Elizabeth goes to an arms dealer's house and finds him there with his daughter, who looks about ten. Dad tells the girl to go to her room and she does, only to come back toting a shotgun, getting the drop on Elizabeth. Philip then enters the scene from behind and disarms her.
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The Americans / int_178ca149	type	The Worf Effect
The Americans / int_178ca149	comment	The Worf Effect: In the very first scene of the show, an antagonist is characterized as a badass for having beaten up an entire Olympic hockey team. Philip promptly beats him up.
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The Americans / int_1818d1af	type	Protest By Obstruction
The Americans / int_1818d1af	comment	Protest By Obstruction: Pastor Tim chains himself to the gates of an army base to protest nuclear proliferation.
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The Americans / int_18349726	type	Romantic Fakeâ€“Real Turn
The Americans / int_18349726	comment	Romantic Fakeâ€“Real Turn: Elizabeth and Philip.
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The Americans / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
The Americans / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Regularly with episode titles. Phil and Liz also sometimes speculate about what "the Americans" will do.
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The Americans / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
The Americans / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: A badly phrased comment on TV by Secretary of State and retired four star general Alexander Haig causes the Russians to suspect that the US military is staging a coup following the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan. As a result Philip and Elizabeth are told to prepare for the outbreak of World War 3 and start scouting out the best location for assassinating the Secretary of Defense. Elizabeth then kills a security guard who interrupts them. Inverted later when Philip refuses to tell the KGB about an important piece of intelligence because he believes that it will unnecessarily increase tensions and could trigger the war. A communication problem between Stan and his partner almost causes them to expose their agent in the embassy, which would get her killed.
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The Americans / int_1c785368	type	Badass Israeli
The Americans / int_1c785368	comment	Badass Israeli: The Mossad agents guarding Baklanov fight Philip and Elizabeth on equal terms and even manage to steal Baklanov right back from them.
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The Americans / int_1f250372	type	I Need a Freaking Drink
The Americans / int_1f250372	comment	I Need a Freaking Drink: In the series finale, Paige abandons her parents at the last moment, getting off the train right before it crosses the Canadian border, choosing to stay in America. The last scene we ever see of her, she enters Claudia's abandoned apartment, pulls a bottle of vodka out of the fridge, and downs a shot.
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The Americans / int_1f4bb5b4	type	Let Me Tell You a Story
The Americans / int_1f4bb5b4	comment	Let Me Tell You a Story: Stan's hunting parable to Vlad after his abduction.
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The Americans / int_1fb947b6	type	Just Train Wrong
The Americans / int_1fb947b6	comment	Just Train Wrong: The train to Canada in "START" is clearly a Metro North train made up to look like an Amtrak train, though Amtrak does have a route that runs from New York City to Montreal, the Adirondack. It uses a modern GE Genesis locomotive painted in the Amtrak livery of the time when the episode is set, but in real life the F40PH was the main road diesel in that era. Amtrak mainly used Turboliner trainsets on routes that ran in upstate New York, including the Adirondack.
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The Americans / int_1fc8335e	type	Deal with the Devil
The Americans / int_1fc8335e	comment	Deal with the Devil: Larrick forces Elizabeth to take this while he strangles Lucia.
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The Americans / int_21bde5e8	type	The Tooth Hurts
The Americans / int_21bde5e8	comment	The Tooth Hurts: Elizabeth gets a tooth busted up in a fight with FBI agents in the Season 3 premiere. Eventually she has to have it pulled, but the FBI is on a lookout for anyone matching Elizabeth's description who goes to a dentist. So Phillip has to extract her busted tooth, without benefit of anesthesia.
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The Americans / int_21f19cfa	type	Fake American
The Americans / int_21f19cfa	comment	Fake American: Philip and Elizabeth are an in-universe example of this trope, as are the other agents in the illegals program. Matthew Rhys (a Welshman) is one in-universe and in Real Life.
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The Americans / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Americans / int_22cf536c	comment	Martha's Chekhov's Gun, bought, much to Philip's unpleasant surprise, in episode 2-2, "Cardinal". Martha takes target practice with it in Season 3 premiere "EST Men". Martha's storyline ended in Season 4, with the gun never fired.
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The Americans / int_25524784	type	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
The Americans / int_25524784	comment	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Elizabeth delivers a surprising and brutal one to Claudia after her torture at her own agency's hands.
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The Americans / int_26e2cc1	type	The Schlub Pub Seduction Deduction
The Americans / int_26e2cc1	comment	The Schlub Pub Seduction Deduction: Lampshaded by Philip and Emmett in "The Colonel".
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The Americans / int_27074b46	type	Holding Hands
The Americans / int_27074b46	comment	Holding Hands: A lot in the first three episodes seeing as how the start of the series marks the beginning of the agents really connecting.
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The Americans / int_279e62f7	type	Unique Pilot Title Sequence
The Americans / int_279e62f7	comment	Unique Pilot Title Sequence: In the pilot, the names of the cast members pop up over the action movie-style. Starting with the second episode the show adopts a new sequence featuring Soviet iconography and Cyrillic letters.
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The Americans / int_299d33f2	type	IKEA Erotica
The Americans / int_299d33f2	comment	IKEA Erotica: Nina's official reports on her seduction of Stan read like this.
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The Americans / int_29fb4ade	type	Withholding the Cure
The Americans / int_29fb4ade	comment	Withholding the Cure: Seen in "The Clock".
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The Americans / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
The Americans / int_2a090d00	comment	Kate does this when she shows up in a headscarf and trenchcoat to a meet. Lampshaded by Phillip.
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The Americans / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
The Americans / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: Ronald Reagan to the Soviets. Which is Truth in Television — the Soviet government viewed Reagan as very dangerous. Larrick. Even Claudia is frightened of him.
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The Americans / int_2b278c5d	type	Loss of Identity
The Americans / int_2b278c5d	comment	Loss of Identity: Elizabeth may not believe so, but she seems to be going through this to some extent. Her softer approach to people now is a far cry from when she was little Nadezhda living in a hardened Soviet Union.
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The Americans / int_2c1f1138	type	He Who Fights Monsters
The Americans / int_2c1f1138	comment	He Who Fights Monsters: Stan Beeman after Philip's unplanned abduction and killing of Amador.
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The Americans / int_2cc736e4	type	Bondage Is Bad
The Americans / int_2cc736e4	comment	Bondage Is Bad: Or rough sex and erotic spanking is bad, as the guy who whips Elizabeth demonstrates.
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The Americans / int_2dddd99d	type	False Flag Operation
The Americans / int_2dddd99d	comment	False Flag Operation: Philip is exploiting Martha, Agent Gaad's secretary, by pretending to be another FBI agent investigating the counterintelligence unit.
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The Americans / int_30643e22	type	Bathroom Break-Out
The Americans / int_30643e22	comment	Bathroom Break-Out: Elizabeth and Philip pull one with an unconscious target.
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The Americans / int_32da91b8	type	Out of Focus
The Americans / int_32da91b8	comment	Out of Focus: Henry was never the focus of the show, but he was seen less and less in later years, as Henry was sent off to boarding school while Paige was groomed to join the family spy business. In the finale Henry is seen in only two scenes and only has dialogue in one.
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The Americans / int_33029735	type	Dies Wide Open
The Americans / int_33029735	comment	Dies Wide Open: Joyce, the wife of the agent who died in the pilot, meets an unfortunate end in "Gregory". The same happens to Agent Chris Amador. Poor unfortunate Annelise after an intelligence op ends with her getting strangled to death in "EST Men".
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The Americans / int_3678fbfa	type	Mad Bomber
The Americans / int_3678fbfa	comment	Mad Bomber: A rogue faction of the KGB hires an assassin who likes to blow up his targets with bombs and does not seem to care about collateral damage.
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The Americans / int_36999dd	type	This Means War!
The Americans / int_36999dd	comment	This Means War!: In the pilot episode, President Reagan effectively declares a covert war against undercover KGB operatives in the United States after Philip and Elizabeth kidnap a Soviet defector living on US soil.
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The Americans / int_37cb353b	type	Ate His Gun
The Americans / int_37cb353b	comment	Ate His Gun: General Rennhull when Elizabeth starts to overpower him in "Tchaikovsky".
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The Americans / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
The Americans / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: Beeman figures out a simple, yet effective, plan to throw suspicion off the real mole, Nina. The Rezident is put on a plane as a result, and all it required was a basic understanding of Soviet presumed-guilty paranoia regarding their high officials.note Not to mention some planted diamonds. The United States Government pulls off a Batman Gambit in season 2. They come up with faulty rotor designs for submarines and plant them at facilities all over the country, knowing full well that the Soviets will try to steal them. Russia obtains the plans and retrofits one of their submarines with the new rotors. The "improved" submarine has a rotor malfunction that kills the entire crew (over a hundred Soviet sailors). The US tricked Russia into stealing plans that would kill its own military personnel. It goes a level deeper when Oleg uncovers the fact that the fake plans wouldn't have caused such a disaster if the Soviets hadn't insisted on using the designs on the wrong type of submarine with minimal testing.
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The Americans / int_397f480b	type	Spy School
The Americans / int_397f480b	comment	Spy School: Elizabeth is shown in the pilot learning both physical combat skills and the finer points of idiomatic American English. Then things turn very bad. In Season 3 Elizabeth is giving a new character lessons on how to tail someone. Season 3 episode "Salang Pass" includes a flashback of Phillip going through KGB sex school. He is tasked with having sex with a hot lady. Then a wrinkled old lady. Then a fat man. Much of Season 6 has Elizabeth taking Paige through Spy Homeschooling, as Paige starts taking basic instruction on spycraft. (It's really just the 101 course as the idea is for Paige to be a mole in the government rather than a field agent.)
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The Americans / int_39a63cd3	type	City of Spies
The Americans / int_39a63cd3	comment	City of Spies: Washington DC is full of not just KGB, CIA, and FBI agents, but also Contras, Sandanistas, South Africans (both pro- and anti-goverment), Mossad, ISI, Mujahadeen, and others.
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The Americans / int_39b8d3d6	type	Boring, but Practical
The Americans / int_39b8d3d6	comment	Boring, but Practical: In contrast to the KGB's flashy, subterfuge-ridden spycraft, when it comes to business the FBI agents of the series simply follow the book and procedure. Following Martha's defection, the FBI put surveillance on the mail robot she's known to tamper with. Sure enough, they catch a KGB hireling working on it. Stan gets a tip from Oleg that the Soviets have a mole at a secret American chemical weapons company. Not what company, not who the mole is or in what position they work in. He, Aderholt, in coordination with multiple FBI offices manage to arrest William simply by checking the employee lists of every possible chemical weapons facility and seeing if any of them are working under the assumed identity of a dead person. They end up tracking William down this way. In season six, the FBI starts unraveling the spy network by figuring out how the spies are obtaining their vehicles and then assigning dozens of agents to spend days going through thousands of newspaper ads and sale records. It is an extremely slow process but it gives them leads that they could not have gotten otherwise.
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The Americans / int_3aec9e5e	type	Properly Paranoid
The Americans / int_3aec9e5e	comment	Properly Paranoid: Stan. He stops being proper by the end of Season 1, when his feelings to Nina makes him unable to see her deceptions.
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The Americans / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
The Americans / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: President Reagan survives the assassination attempt. There is no military coup and World War 3 does not start. This trope is examined in-universe: the Russians assume that a military coup will occur based on their own experiences with America's allies. Philip, by all accounts the Soviet character who "gets" America the best, is the only one who notices the Americans have no such expectations, or at least not in their own country. The plot by KGB hardliners to derail the 1987 summit and overthrow Gorbachev will fail, and the summit will go smoothly. (There was just such a coup attempt in 1991 by KGB hardliners, but it quickly collapsed.)
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The Americans / int_3ce2cf4f	type	Hassle-Free Hotwire
The Americans / int_3ce2cf4f	comment	Hassle-Free Hotwire: Philip does this to escape the FBI in Season 1 finale "The Colonel".
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The Americans / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
The Americans / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: Paige has been training with Elizabeth for years and manages to beat up two grabby college boys, but when Philip spars with her to make a point, he tosses her around with casual ease.
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The Americans / int_3dd3951e	type	Cowboy Cop
The Americans / int_3dd3951e	comment	Cowboy Cop: Stan has a knack for unsanctioned work and is often following his own, accurate hunches. One time he bullies the guy in the stereo store without even a hint of a warrant, another he breaks into the Jennings' garage. When Amador is killed, this becomes even more pronounced, particularly in his speech about how hunting dogs carry the birds they catch to their master's feet to a terrified captured KGB agent. He's also the first to become suspicious of Martha and puts her under surveillance without telling the bosses. Elizabeth and Philip ignore direct orders from the Center and think outside the box sometimes, which doesn't sit well with the rigid Soviet structure.
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The Americans / int_3ebc57ac	type	Going Native
The Americans / int_3ebc57ac	comment	Going Native: Philip, but explicitly not Elizabeth. Oleg clearly has gotten himself assigned to the Washington DC KGB office for a chance to go native and experience American culture.
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The Americans / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
The Americans / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Wounds suffered by the characters can be fatal (for example Robert in the series premiere) or require a long rehabilitation process. Highly trained agents are unable to fight their way out of sudden unexpected ambushes and are captured (in the KGB "test") or the other spy couple and their daughter in their hotel room in the second season premiere. Killing and other unpleasant activities take an emotional toll on the Jennings. Growing children are becoming more aware of their surrounding and are not oblivious. Nobody is above anybody when it comes to political dealings. Anton Baklanov, a Jewish refusenik himself, is traded by Mossad-the very Israelis who promised to protect him-for 1,500 more Jewish refuseniks from the USSR. Asking your husband to make love to you as he does to his mark makes both of you very upset and is not enjoyable or titillating. Your hostage has to shit. And he shits in front of you. And then you have to wipe his ass. It's not a good idea to go after a highly-trained Navy SEAL colonel you're specifically and explicitly forbidden from attacking. Your boss not only has to stop using him, you'll also die. There are no second acts in Soviet lives, and no redemption. Treason and failing the motherland are rewarded with a bullet to the brain, 1984-style. This is made painfully explicit in Nina Sergeevna's storyline. Philip suspects that Paige has grown overconfident in the fighting skills she's learned from Elizabeth, so he forces her to spar with him and casually demolishes her, forcing her to realize that attacking people twice her size is incredibly dangerous no matter how much training she receives.
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The Americans / int_3f0b2f50	type	Make It Look Like an Accident
The Americans / int_3f0b2f50	comment	Make It Look Like an Accident: In the episode "Gregory", the KGB murders Joyce (Rob's wife) by making it look like she died of an accidental heroin overdose. A variation in the episode "In Control". After murdering the security guard, the Jennings leave the body in a wooded area and leave behind clues suggesting the man was killed by a woman he was having sex with.
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The Americans / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
The Americans / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: Also Stan lying to Nina's face about murdering Vlad. Elizabeth does a lot of this in season 6 when Paige starts asking pointed questions about whether or not agents have to perform sex work for missions.
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The Americans / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Americans / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Although for some characters it's a straight-up Downer Ending. The Jennings family is broken, but everyone survives. Elizabeth and Phillip are outed as deep cover Soviet spies and return home, to a place they haven't visited in 20 years. Paige and Henry remain behind and must deal with the fallout of having Russian agents as parents. Stan is wracked with guilt for both not suspecting the Jennings for so long and ultimately letting them go. He also suspects that his girlfriend Renee is another agent. Oleg is doomed to spend decades in prison, destroying his family.
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The Americans / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
The Americans / int_43b785f9	comment	Nothing but Hits: Iconic music from the 80s is seamlessly played and the songs are almost another character in the show, often containing lyrics that put a point on what's happening.
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The Americans / int_443f9d8a	type	Ask a Stupid Question...
The Americans / int_443f9d8a	comment	Ask a Stupid Question...: Stan Beeman comes in for this when after having heavily complimented Nina on her looks, he checks back in with her later on and asks her how she got her information from the Rezident Vasili.
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The Americans / int_44606d14	type	Becoming the Mask
The Americans / int_44606d14	comment	Becoming the Mask: Philip's central problem is that he likes being a middle class American far too much for a Soviet mole. In season six he actually quits spycraft for a while and focuses solely on his cover job.
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The Americans / int_447d9e50	type	Xanatos Speed Chess
The Americans / int_447d9e50	comment	Xanatos Speed Chess: The ending of Season 3 premiere "EST Men". Annelise is boning Yousaf with Phillip listening from the next room. Annelise starts to grow a conscience and tells Yousaf what's really going on. Phillip bursts in, moments too late from preventing Yousaf from strangling Annelise to death. Before her body is cold, Phillip is improvising on the spot, telling Yousaf "I can make this go away", getting him under KGB control.
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The Americans / int_47d35854	type	Intergenerational Friendship
The Americans / int_47d35854	comment	Intergenerational Friendship: Paige and Henry develop one with Pastor Tim and Agent Beeman respectively, which serves to underscore that despite their genuine care, the Jenning's parenthood is lacking, as the boys seek out another parental figures.
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The Americans / int_4900de0e	type	Spy's Suspicious Spouse
The Americans / int_4900de0e	comment	Spy's Suspicious Spouse: Suspicious daughter. Paige is becoming more and more suspicious of what exactly her parents are hiding. By Season 2 she's trying to listen in on their phone calls.
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The Americans / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
The Americans / int_4920f624	comment	Hidden Villain: Claudia in the final season; she is part of the coup The Center is attempting to pull off during the summit, and is using Elizabeth's loyalty to her own ends.
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The Americans / int_4aa24ad9	type	I Have a Family
The Americans / int_4aa24ad9	comment	I Have a Family: An excellent example in Season 2's "The Walk In": Philip & Elizabeth masquerade as inspectors to get into a shipyard to get a look at some secret military submarine propellers, and a worker catches Elizabeth breaking a crate open. While keeping her tone light and casual, she picks up a crowbar. The worker, still speaking casually but quite obviously terrified, leads Elizabeth to the propeller. While still speaking casually, he shows her pictures of his kids and says, in a quavering voice, "They're expecting me home." Elizabeth eventually leaves, but not before taking the picture of the youngest kid.
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The Americans / int_4b1afa0d	type	Spiteful Spit
The Americans / int_4b1afa0d	comment	Spiteful Spit: Kate does this to Larrick after he questions her in "Stealth". It ends badly for her.
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The Americans / int_4e7017f1	type	Wig, Dress, Accent
The Americans / int_4e7017f1	comment	Wig, Dress, Accent: The Jennings use wigs, glasses, different clothes and makeup to put on a unique appearance for each asset. Philip's "Clark" wig remains amazingly durable during numerous sex scenes with Martha, and is completely intact even after he sleeps in it. Though Martha does know it is fake and assumes that it is a toupee, which actually strengthens his cover of being in love with her.
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The Americans / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The Americans / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: "Your appeal has been reviewed and denied. Your sentence of death stands, and will be carried out shortly." Directly leading to the above a season later, "Tell Nina I'm sorry."
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The Americans / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
The Americans / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: In the series finale, just after a fleeing Elizabeth makes it past the security at the Canadian border and the train starts moving again, she looks out the window and sees that Paige, who had been accompanying her parents back to Russia, has gotten off the train and is standing on the platform, effectively abandoning them forever.
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The Americans / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
The Americans / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: The pilot episode often shows Russian characters behaving in a stereotypically villainous way — meeting in darkened rooms decorated only with a picture of Lenin, condoning pointless brutality towards their own agents — and also has some lazy writing, such as having one Russian character be a Famous-Named Foreigner (General Zhukov is not that General Zhukov). Later episodes made the Russians much more fleshed out and sympathetic, and portrayed Soviet culture more accurately.
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The Americans / int_502b147b	type	Playing Drunk
The Americans / int_502b147b	comment	Playing Drunk: Philip and Elizabeth attack an Israeli operative and are dragging him away when they're stopped by a cop. They claim they're just escorting their too-drunk friend home. The Israeli, not wanting to make a bad situation even worse, plays along by slurring through a few bars of Kenny Rogers's "The Gambler" along with a nearby jukebox.
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The Americans / int_50b1855d	type	Spy Fiction
The Americans / int_50b1855d	comment	Spy Fiction: Of the Stale Beer variety.
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The Americans / int_50f66629	type	Crazy-Prepared
The Americans / int_50f66629	comment	Crazy-Prepared: The KGB agents, operating far from home and support, have a lot of preparation to ensure their safety. They have a fake demented "Aunt" for the kids if they ask too many questions. Someone monitors Martha's line to ensure she does not reveal "Clark" to the US. Season 3 reveals that if Directorate S agents ever find themselves being tailed, they can call someone and get a made-to-order traffic collision that will allow them to escape the tail. Phillip has a fully-furnished and seemingly lived-in apartment for "Clark", in case Martha ever asks to go there. It comes in handy when she actually does, in the middle of the night.
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The Americans / int_52132531	type	Marriage Before Romance
The Americans / int_52132531	comment	Marriage Before Romance: Philip and Elizabeth. It's mentioned at one point that when Philip was introduced to Elizabeth for the first time he was relieved by how pretty she was, but he could tell by her face that she was disappointed by him. It isn't until the third episode that Elizabeth admits that she's starting to feel love for Philip for the first time in their twenty year marriage. Philip and Martha's fake relationship and fake marriage starts to get more real by Season 4, like in season premiere "Glanders", when he's going to Martha for comfort and telling her things he doesn't tell his other wife. From what we saw in the Season 2 premiere, Emmet and Leanne also qualified.
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The Americans / int_524f94d3	type	Rape as Backstory
The Americans / int_524f94d3	comment	Elizabeth is shown in the pilot learning both physical combat skills and the finer points of idiomatic American English. Then things turn very bad.
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The Americans / int_53c47260	type	You Monster!
The Americans / int_53c47260	comment	You Monster!: Tied with the You Bastard! above. When Philip doesn't even look at him while he's pleading, Baklanov accuses Philip of this, and rightly so.
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The Americans / int_54367e5d	type	Mathematician's Answer
The Americans / int_54367e5d	comment	Mathematician's Answer: When Claudia identifies a woman in the US as a Nazi collaborator who killed Soviet POWs based on them being the same age and height, Philip asks whether this means they're really the same person, or just share those characteristics. Claudia says "Yes".
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The Americans / int_54bb502b	type	Nobody Poops
The Americans / int_54bb502b	comment	Nobody Poops: Averted. The Mossad agent Philip takes hostage has to do it. In front of Philip. Who has to wipe his asshole afterward.
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The Americans / int_556b5b65	type	DeadManSwitch
The Americans / int_556b5b65	comment	Dead Man Switch: The season 6 premiere, appropriately titled "Dead Man", reveals this to be part of the MacGuffin. The Soviets have created a "dead man" system to destroy the Americans in a nuclear war, even if the whole Soviet leadership is taken out by an American first strike. The anti-Gorbachev clique in the KGB is afraid that Gorbachev will bargain this away in the upcoming summit.
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The Americans / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
The Americans / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License â€“ History: The show does a good job in following history as closely as possible, but it takes some liberties from time to time: The show is premised on American and Soviet agents committing brazen assassinations as part of the Cold War. As real-life Cold War operatives have pointed out, no one in either government would have actually dared commit anything so aggressive, as that would have risked sending the world into outright nuclear war. The Afghan War and ISI subplot plays it straight. Possibly due to modern day political sensitivities, the Afghan War is given the popular version of history, the actual nuances and timelines are quite mixed up. For instance: The CIA is seen as being highly involved with the Afghan resistance in 1982. In real life, while the CIA did provide support, major assistance was not forthcoming until 1984, when the war started turning sour for the Soviets. Far from the ISI deliberately keeping the CIA away from the Mujahideen as alleged in the show, the arrangement was to provide the US with deniability. There is a great deal of angst about the ISI's fundamentalism bent. The Pakistani spy even moans about "officers growing beards, and getting questions on religiosity". In reality, the ISI was at the time led by the very secular officer (Akhtar Abdur Rahman), who was quite suspicious of religious elements and often clashed with CIA officials over that. ISI support for religious groups came after the end of the Afghan War... and in Kashmir. Pakistan and the ISI's motivations are also couched (probably for purposes of modern American opinions, which are quite anti that country) as being for religious reasons. In real life, they were a lot more complex, but generally a mixture of anti-communism, and fears of further Soviet expansion. The Mujahideen are portrayed almost as proto-Taliban, which is admittedly the popular narrative today. In actuality, except for a couple of senior commanders, the Taliban mostly consisted of people who were too young to fight the Soviets (the hint is in the name, Taliban=Students). The Taliban fought and defeated the remaining Mujahideen factions in Afghanistan after the USSR collapsed. Most of the Mujahideen factions that actually fought the Soviets joined the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance. The USSR didnâ€™t have strangers pose as married couples like Philip and Elizabeth were when they started. They usually used couples where both spouses were spies as their deep cover agents or less frequently used couples where one was an agent and recruited the other spouse.
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The Americans / int_5798bfbf	type	Reassigned to Antarctica
The Americans / int_5798bfbf	comment	Reassigned to Antarctica: Vasili is seen in Season 2 heading up a remote scientific outpost in the middle of Siberia.
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The Americans / int_5a0e88d8	type	Bring It
The Americans / int_5a0e88d8	comment	Bring It: Elizabeth before taking down Timoshev.
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The Americans / int_5b979c61	type	With My Hands Tied
The Americans / int_5b979c61	comment	With My Hands Tied: In the second season finale Elizabeth fights Larrick after being handcuffed and does well enough that Philip, who is also cuffed, is able to get the drop on him and steal the gun out of his waistband and shoot him with it. Justified in this instance, as Jared had shot Larrick in the back first.
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The Americans / int_5d397b9c	type	The Mountains of Illinois
The Americans / int_5d397b9c	comment	The Mountains of Illinois: The season 5 episode "Pests" has a scene set in rural Illinois but very clearly filmed in the rolling countryside of upstate New York.
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The Americans / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
The Americans / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	"The Magic of David Copperfield V: The Statue of Liberty Disappears", in Season 4. Martha is exfiltrated after being exposed as the mole within the FBI. Agent Gaad is forced to retire. Lisa returns and Elizabeth kills her when she admits she plans to confess. Gabriel announces there will be no new missions, and the episode ends with a 7-month Time Skip.
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The Americans / int_607d4ada	type	Run for the Border
The Americans / int_607d4ada	comment	Run for the Border: When Elizabeth and Philip's cover is blown, they flee to Canada and then back to Russia. Paige goes with them at first, but decides to stay in America. They leave Henry behind.
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The Americans / int_615fdb1f	type	Dream Sequence
The Americans / int_615fdb1f	comment	Dream Sequence: Stan has a pretty bad dream in "The Echo" which features Vlad (the guy he murdered), his wife humping a Russian, and Martha stealing documents (possibly indicating that Stan has some subconscious suspicion).
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The Americans / int_62b72e	type	Perilous Marriage Proposal
The Americans / int_62b72e	comment	Perilous Marriage Proposal: Enforced when "Clark" proposes to Martha in "The Oath". He does so to keep her onside after she plants a bug in Gaad's office. Though they get married, it's this bug that gets Martha caught and causes Philip to extradite her to Russia in "Walter Taffet."
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The Americans / int_63075cbd	type	FBI Agent
The Americans / int_63075cbd	comment	FBI Agent: Stan, Chris, Agent Gaad.
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The Americans / int_6363937b	type	Cyanide Pill
The Americans / int_6363937b	comment	Cyanide Pill: Officers attempting to disrupt the summit in Season 6 are issued these.
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The Americans / int_639aa0cd	type	Did You Just Have Sex?
The Americans / int_639aa0cd	comment	Did You Just Have Sex?: Happens off-screen Season 4 finale. Beeman comes home after work and finds Paige and Mathew hurriedly fixing their hair and clothes.
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The Americans / int_63f492d1	type	Bluff the Eavesdropper
The Americans / int_63f492d1	comment	Bluff the Eavesdropper: After finding the listening device in Caspar Weinberger's office, the FBI does this in order to lay a trap for Directorate S.
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The Americans / int_67792344	type	Grievous Bottley Harm
The Americans / int_67792344	comment	Grievous Bottley Harm: Henry breaks a beer bottle over a pervert's head in "Trust Me".
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The Americans / int_68069489	type	Nipple and Dimed
The Americans / int_68069489	comment	Nipple and Dimed: The Americans is a master class in the art of showing people rolling around naked in bed without ever revealing a woman's nipples. Notable examples are the sex scene between the gorgeous prostitute and the German assassin in "Mutually Assured Destruction", or Annelise's sex with Yousef in "EST Men".
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The Americans / int_6875260	type	Vodka Drunkenski
The Americans / int_6875260	comment	Vodka Drunkenski: Averted, for the most part, as the Jennings are under deep cover. If the vodka comes out, it's because something serious has happened.
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The Americans / int_6a0b03a6	type	One Last Job
The Americans / int_6a0b03a6	comment	One Last Job: Philip comes out of retirement to help Elizabeth exfiltrate another agent; it is the last major mission in the series.
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The Americans / int_6ae4dedd	type	The Unfair Sex
The Americans / int_6ae4dedd	comment	The Unfair Sex: Elizabeth's affair with Gregory (which lasted for years) is portrayed in a sympathetic light because he was "passionate" about her and Elizabeth hadn't yet started falling for Philip. But later when Philip has a one night stand with his former lover in the aftermath of Elizabeth betraying his trust, she decides to kick him out of the house.
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The Americans / int_6eeba1cb	type	Shut Up, Kirk!
The Americans / int_6eeba1cb	comment	Shut Up, Kirk!: An interesting example. Arkady intends to play Kirk at Gaad by showing him the photograph of Vlad in order to guilt him of Vlad's death. Gaad quickly shuts him down by bringing up Amador's murder at the hand of the KGB. Arkady doesn't mention that Amador was vengeful (and likely drunk) when he was killed, almost certainly in self-defense, unlike Vlad who was a prisoner.
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The Americans / int_6fa71d36	type	Diplomatic Cover Spy
The Americans / int_6fa71d36	comment	Diplomatic Cover Spy: A regular character was Arkady Ivanovich Zolov, the KGB resident in the United States. He likes his comfortable life and does most of his work out of the Soviet Embassy. He has regular meetings with a Vasili Nikolavich, a ranking official of the Soviet Embassy.
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The Americans / int_6fdd991c	type	Overt Operative
The Americans / int_6fdd991c	comment	Overt Operative: Everyone knows the real duties of the people in the Rezidentura. Most of their cover jobs are not ever mentioned at all, and the people themselves make no attempt to hide their actual responsibilities. Truth in Television, as it has always been common practice for intelligence agents to work in embassies as "diplomats", giving them diplomatic immunity. Kate does this when she shows up in a headscarf and trenchcoat to a meet. Lampshaded by Phillip.
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The Americans / int_70746ec7	type	Dance of Despair
The Americans / int_70746ec7	comment	Dance of Despair: Phillip takes up country line dancing in order to fill up all the spare time he now has as his spying career ends and his business falls apart.
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The Americans / int_716d9138	type	Bar Brawl
The Americans / int_716d9138	comment	Bar Brawl: Paige gets into one in "The Great Patriotic War".
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The Americans / int_7175cb16	type	Clark Kenting
The Americans / int_7175cb16	comment	Clark Kenting: One of the alter egos is also called "Clark". And this Clark looks a lot like Philip with a toupee and glasses. However, for the most part the disguises are not meant to completely change the agents appearances, just to look nondescript.
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The Americans / int_7230cfe	type	Shoe Phone
The Americans / int_7230cfe	comment	Shoe Phone: In "The Clock", Elizabeth poisons Grayson by injecting him with a needle hidden in the tip of an umbrella. This sort of device is Truth in Television, and the KGB used the Bulgarian Umbrella in real life to assassinate a Bulgarian dissident writer living in London.
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The Americans / int_7276d0de	type	Mugging the Monster
The Americans / int_7276d0de	comment	Mugging the Monster: Two ruffians intercept Elizabeth and Page on their way to the car. Elizabeth hands over her wallet as any regular person would do, but when one of the muggers keeps approaching Paige with ill-intent, she fights them, killing the one who pulled a knife.
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The Americans / int_73328e84	type	Suicide by Cop
The Americans / int_73328e84	comment	Suicide by Cop: In "Only You", Gregory chooses this route instead of fleeing to Moscow.
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The Americans / int_7335ffa9	type	Grey-and-Gray Morality
The Americans / int_7335ffa9	comment	Grey-and-Gray Morality: So very much of it. Lampshaded by Nina in "Duty and Honor":
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The Americans / int_733e007a	type	Unwitting Pawn
The Americans / int_733e007a	comment	Unwitting Pawn: Martha. She knows Philip as "Clark", and she believes he is another FBI agent investigating the counterintelligence unit. She starts off by passing him FBI gossip and then graduates to passing him classified documents, believing all the while that she's helping the good guys catch the bad guys.
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The Americans / int_7426582d	type	Token Minority
The Americans / int_7426582d	comment	Token Minority: Stan's partner Chris is one of only three minorities in his department, which, according to Stan, gives Chris license to roughly interrogate suspects.
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The Americans / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
The Americans / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: Rezident Vasili is called back to the USSR to stand trial. We learn in season two that The Bus Came Back, but to Siberia. Martha gets burned and is successfully exfiltrated to the USSR. A later episode checks back on Martha, whose rather sad life in Moscow is lightened when the KGB matches her up with an orphan to adopt.
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The Americans / int_775a1af6	type	Married to the Job
The Americans / int_775a1af6	comment	Married to the Job: Most of the FBI agents know for a fact that serving their country takes a serious toll on their personal lives. Philip and Elizabeth gradually provide an example.
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The Americans / int_77b03c0a	type	Remember the New Guy?
The Americans / int_77b03c0a	comment	Remember the New Guy?: KGB agent Gabriel, introduced in the first episode of Season 3 as an old friend. Apparently he was Philip and Elizabeth's handler at some point before the time frame of the series.
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The Americans / int_798a9e41	type	Auto Erotica
The Americans / int_798a9e41	comment	Auto Erotica: Philip and Elizabeth celebrate this way after completing a mission in the pilot. Annelise has driver's seat sex with Phillip in "EST Men", and feels bad about it afterwards.
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The Americans / int_7aa858c1	type	Consummate Liar
The Americans / int_7aa858c1	comment	Consummate Liar: Saying that the "Jennings" are extremely good at deception would be an understatement. This comes with the job description for cover agents, since their dual (and something trial or quadral) lives depend on it.
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The Americans / int_7b3ebb57	type	Buxom Beauty Standard
The Americans / int_7b3ebb57	comment	Buxom Beauty Standard: In "Pastor Tim", Henry, now a teen awash in hormones, tells Stan Beeman that he lusts after one of his teachers. When Stan asks about her, Henry says "She's got..." and makes a gesture indicating large breasts.
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The Americans / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
The Americans / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: The FBI Director has this for Stan after his affair with his mole. Sandra asks Stan if he's having an affair.
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The Americans / int_7ba4adea	type	Black Market Produce
The Americans / int_7ba4adea	comment	Black Market Produce: Oleg investigates corruption in the Soviet food supply in Season 5.
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The Americans / int_7c862b8a	type	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder
The Americans / int_7c862b8a	comment	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Nina betrays every 'side' she's on. Even after being imprisoned for treason in season 3, she informs on her fellow prisoners in exchange for better treatment and meals from the guards. Ultimately the one time she refuses to betray someone and report on Anton Baklanov, she's executed because of it.
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The Americans / int_7dbfa45b	type	Spy Speak
The Americans / int_7dbfa45b	comment	Spy Speak: Frequently by the KGB operatives. One officerâ€™s job is to monitor phones and relay messages to the other spies through metaphors. The sign/countersign method is also used when the spies meet in person.
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The Americans / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
The Americans / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: In his first scene of the series, Philip beats up a guy who had previously beaten up the entire Japanese Olympic judo team, revealing that he is badass. He also recalls the specific rank that team held when the guy beat them up, revealing that he is a Genius Bruiser. In the first episode, Philip alters their plans so he can drop a wounded colleague near the hospital, giving him a chance to survive, while Elizabeth is insisting that the mission comes first. This sums up their contrasting personalities: for Philip, people are more important than their undercover spying; for Elizabeth, people are ultimately expendable.
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The Americans / int_80621707	type	Arranged Marriage
The Americans / int_80621707	comment	Arranged Marriage: Philip and Elizabeth, by the KGB. Also presumably Emmet and Leanne. Averted with Robert who married a third party. Bureaucratically Arranged Marriage: It seems that the KGB sets up its agents with each other. This was averted with real life husband and wife spy teams. note In real life the KGB either selected from agents who were already married to each other or recruited the spouse of an existing agent.
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The Americans / int_819b6384	type	Sympathetic Murderer
The Americans / int_819b6384	comment	Sympathetic Murderer: By the middle of season 2, both Elizabeth and Philip have enough innocent blood on their hands for this trope to apply, with Philip considering himself one, particularly after the events of "Martial Eagle."
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The Americans / int_8387bb18	type	Good Girls Avoid Abortion
The Americans / int_8387bb18	comment	Good Girls Avoid Abortion: Averted with Nina, who's mentioned to have had an abortion in the past but is not portrayed badly for it. In fact, she's probably one of the nicest characters. The father, her estranged husband, seems to not hold it against her or be upset, merely speculative as to how things would have been different if she had kept it.
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The Americans / int_853b7948	type	Ambiguously Evil
The Americans / int_853b7948	comment	Ambiguously Evil: We don't really know whether the guy who picks up Paige and Henry is a Jerkass with child abuse on his mind or if he is about to drop some advice on the kids about the dangers of hitchhiking and doesn't realize just how creepy he is coming off. Henry thinks it's the former...
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The Americans / int_85cefc44	type	Sympathetic Adulterer
The Americans / int_85cefc44	comment	Sympathetic Adulterer: Elizabeth's relationship with Gregory can be seen as the good type in-universe given that she is a fish out of water in a "marriage" that is, at the time, only a professional arrangement "in a strange country with a strange man" as she puts it and is looking for some sort of real connection. It is bad to the viewer because Philip is sympathetic, probably cared for her long before she started caring for him, and is deeply hurt.
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The Americans / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
The Americans / int_868afe72	comment	Covert Group with Mundane Front: The Jennings run a travel agency. This provides them with sufficient excuse to travel and to meet different types of people.
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The Americans / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
The Americans / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: When Philip flies off the handle, wanting to go after a mark who got too rough with Elizabeth, she lets him know that she doesn't need taking care of. Philip gets one in the opening of season two: Larrick gives one to Elizabeth:
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The Americans / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
The Americans / int_875615dd	comment	Truth in Television: Philip's long-term operation with Martha is based on a strategy used by Stasi spymasters where agents would marry "spinsters" and pump them for information for years, sometimes decades.
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The Americans / int_8767b1f3	type	Black-and-Gray Morality
The Americans / int_8767b1f3	comment	Black-and-Gray Morality: Our protagonists are murderous KGB spies. The FBI guy hunting for them murdered a newbie KGB agent in cold blood and cheated on his wife. Nina is a Triple Agent who also isn't above callously betraying her cellmates. Martha eventually knowingly betrays her country.
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The Americans / int_89cf0914	type	Parental Sexuality Squick
The Americans / int_89cf0914	comment	Parental Sexuality Squick: Paige has to deal with this in "Comrades" when she barges in on her mom and dad going 69.
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The Americans / int_8a1215e0	type	Bratty Teenage Daughter
The Americans / int_8a1215e0	comment	Bratty Teenage Daughter: Paige, who was already more or less this, gets even worse in Season 1 after Philip and Elizabeth separate and he moves out of the house. And in Season 2 she gets into Christianity, in what is clearly at least in part an effort to irritate her nonreligious parents.
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The Americans / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
The Americans / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: "Echo", the Season 2 finale. Jared reveals, as he is dying, that he was complicit in the murders of his sister and parents, because he had found out that his parents, like him, were KGB agents and didn't want him being recruited. He also admits to having at least some kind of crush on Kate, his handler. "Stingers", in Season 3. Paige finally has had it and bluntly asks her parents what their strange activities mean. They reveal to her that they are Soviets, and are spying on the USA. "March 8, 1983", the Season 3 finale. Paige tells Pastor Tim that Philip and Elizabeth are Russians. "The Magic of David Copperfield V: The Statue of Liberty Disappears", in Season 4. Martha is exfiltrated after being exposed as the mole within the FBI. Agent Gaad is forced to retire. Lisa returns and Elizabeth kills her when she admits she plans to confess. Gabriel announces there will be no new missions, and the episode ends with a 7-month Time Skip. "Jennings, Elizabeth", the episode before the series finale. Elizabeth sides with the pro-Gorvachev side against the KGB, Oleg is detained, the FBI keeps closing the circle, Philip barely escapes and drops the bland line "things are very topsy turvy at the office" on Elizabeth, which is code for "we have been made, evacuate."
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The Americans / int_8e647ba9	type	Undercover as Lovers
The Americans / int_8e647ba9	comment	Undercover as Lovers: A married couple with children, no less.
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The Americans / int_8ef5ae81	type	Lethally Stupid
The Americans / int_8ef5ae81	comment	Lethally Stupid: Father Andrei suspects that he has been outed as a Soviet agent to the FBI but he still goes to a meeting with Philip and takes his sweet time telling Philip about his suspicions. He is then confused when Philip immediately cuts the meeting short and walks away.
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The Americans / int_8f350291	type	Secret-Identity Identity
The Americans / int_8f350291	comment	Secret-Identity Identity: Philip seriously considers defecting to the United States in the pilot. Elizabeth doesn't exactly approve of this plan.
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The Americans / int_910f8179	type	Cultural Cringe
The Americans / int_910f8179	comment	Cultural Cringe: Philip and Elizabeth cozy up to a Soviet defector in the fifth season who almost constantly lambasts the USSR in favor of the US. This annoys not only them (privately) but also his wife, who didn't want to defect.
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The Americans / int_927b2f11	type	The Bus Came Back
The Americans / int_927b2f11	comment	Rezident Vasili is called back to the USSR to stand trial. We learn in season two that The Bus Came Back, but to Siberia.
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The Americans / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
The Americans / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: The KGB is particularly bad at this, killing or abandoning agents and allies once they've learned all they can. Several characters lampshade the idiocy of this policy, in contrast to the Americans who encourage loyalty and defections with money and a better life.
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The Americans / int_93399c3c	type	Patricide
The Americans / int_93399c3c	comment	Patricide: Jared Connors killed his own father, along with his mother and sister, when they attempted to steer him away from the spy life.
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The Americans / int_958ffe8c	type	The Perils of Being the Best
The Americans / int_958ffe8c	comment	The Perils of Being the Best: Phillip and Elizabeth Jennings are two of the KGB's best undercover spies... which means they've both done a shitload of sleeping with and murdering people for no other reason than because the Centre told them to. They're both constantly dealing with the emotional toll of that kind of work.
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The Americans / int_96a33f11	type	Riddle for the Ages
The Americans / int_96a33f11	comment	Riddle for the Ages: Whether Renee is a Russian agent or not. The Jennings never figure out for certain, but share their suspicion with Stan, who is stuck between loving her and suspecting her.
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The Americans / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Americans / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Larrick in Season 2. Neutralizing him is Philip and Elizabeth's primary endgame since halfway through the season.
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The Americans / int_9843be73	type	As You Know
The Americans / int_9843be73	comment	As You Know: Occasionally during debriefings and to the benefit of the audience, agents spell out to each other concepts that are obviously familiar to them, as they are the proverbial bread and butter of their Spy Speak.
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The Americans / int_984763bb	type	555
The Americans / int_984763bb	comment	555: On a news broadcast about the kidnapping of Joyce in "Gregory". On a Leo Buscaglia infomercial in "Comrades".
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The Americans / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
The Americans / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: Elizabeth uses this angle with Pastor Tim, arguing that they both work to end nuclear threat, for justice and for equality. Pastor Tim thinks otherwise and points out the mistreatment of religious groups in the Eastern Bloc.
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The Americans / int_99ddfcec	type	Unwitting Instigator of Doom
The Americans / int_99ddfcec	comment	Unwitting Instigator of Doom: By meeting with Philip while under FBI surveillance, Father Andrei ends up being the one who blows the Jennings' cover and forces them to flee America.
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The Americans / int_9a3b7208	type	The Needs of the Many
The Americans / int_9a3b7208	comment	The Needs of the Many: The reason why the Israelis turn over Baklanov to the Soviets, so that 1,500 Soviet Jews are allowed to emigrate to Israel.
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The Americans / int_9ae0ead1	type	Villains Out Shopping
The Americans / int_9ae0ead1	comment	Villains Out Shopping: The trope may as well be named after this show. From the American viewpoint, the Jennings and the other KGB are evil. But, we see the Jennings doing decidedly non villainy things all the time, including raising their children, going out on family gatherings, having sex/relationship problems etc etc. After one mission to seduce and entrap a US Defense contractor, Elizabeth and a fellow female agent drink beer sitting on the hood of their car and discuss Elizabeth's recovery from her injuries as they await their husbands return. When the men arrive, the conversation turns to their kids. The FBI is the villain for the protagonists. We see Stan's relationship with his family, other agents celebrating a promotion. When Stan shows up unexpectedly at the Jennings business, what is his purpose? He wants to set up a bachelor party for his brother in law. Even the KGB brass gets its turn, with Vasili being annoyed at the inability of his coworkers to brew tea properly. Arkady gushes about his new microwave. And later curses it when his potato exploded in it, forcing him to wear bandages for a time. And then Arkady is shown browsing the magazine rack, like any ordinary person.
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The Americans / int_9aebded4	type	Mighty Whitey and Mellow Yellow
The Americans / int_9aebded4	comment	Mighty Whitey and Mellow Yellow: Supervisor Gaad has a Vietnamese wife he met while he served there during the war.
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The Americans / int_9b06e314	type	Greater-Scope Villain
The Americans / int_9b06e314	comment	Greater-Scope Villain: Jared.
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The Americans / int_9c47b23b	type	Dirty Communists
The Americans / int_9c47b23b	comment	Dirty Communists: The Center will task the Jennings with murdering innocent people or ruining their lives in aid of goals that are sinister or ultimately pointless.
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The Americans / int_9cede50e	type	Toplessness from the Back
The Americans / int_9cede50e	comment	Toplessness from the Back: Provided by Nina as she slides into bed with Vasili in "Trust Me". And again by a hooker in "Mutually Assured Destruction". Elizabeth gets a full body version in Season 2.
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The Americans / int_9d080c44	type	Ice Queen
The Americans / int_9d080c44	comment	Ice Queen / Defrosting Ice Queen: Elizabeth vacillates back and forth between these tropes.
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The Americans / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Americans / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: In Season 2, Stan dreams about Martha stealing classified documents from the mail robot. Come Season 3, the FBI finally finds the bug Martha installed in Gaad's pen, which results in a full-fledged internal affairs investigation on Stan's department. When an internal affairs officer asks Stan if he could think of anyone being a mole in his department, he hesitates, but then, after he gets out, he asks to see Martha right away.
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The Americans / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
The Americans / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: When Henry gets a tour of the FBI office and meets Mail Robot.
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The Americans / int_a08199ec	type	The Dog Was the Mastermind
The Americans / int_a08199ec	comment	The Dog Was the Mastermind: Season 2 finale "Echo" reveals that Jared killed his parents and his sister after his parents refused to let him spy for the KGB.
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The Americans / int_a0db7803	type	It's Personal
The Americans / int_a0db7803	comment	It's Personal: Stan's actions after Amador is killed can be seen in this light. A variation with Philip. When an Afghan freedom fighter presents an undercover Philip with a blade which he claims he killed many Russians with, note the way that Philip's expression changes. He would probably have killed him anyway and in fact that was almost certainly the reason for the meet but he was far more eager to comply after that statement. Lucia's motivation to kill Larrick as his work in Nicaragua lead to the death of members of her family.
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The Americans / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
The Americans / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Philip's reaction when he gets rough with Elizabeth while wearing his "Clark" disguise. It was actually at her request (she was intrigued by a comment Martha made), but he tears off his hairpiece in disgust when she breaks down crying. Philip deals with this quite a bit in Season 2, like when the Russian scientist that he kidnaps gives him a You Bastard! speech, or when his efforts to infiltrate the Operation Martial Eagle base lead to the deaths of three innocents. Martha says this in Season 4 premiere "Glanders" after realizing that Philip killed Gene to cover for her. Philip has maybe his most serious instance of this when his years-long weird friendship with Kimmie the teenager finally leads to sex. The whole idea is for him to go to Europe with Kimmie so he can lure her behind the iron curtain and into the clutches of the KGB, but he refuses, cutting the relationship off and giving Kimmie an oblique warning.
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The Americans / int_a1b76006	type	Nerves of Steel
The Americans / int_a1b76006	comment	Nerves of Steel: Reverend Tim, the pastor of Paige's church. He doesn't succumb to Philip's intimidation and even manages to force Philip to retreat in the end.
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The Americans / int_a2022cc9	type	Killed Mid-Sentence
The Americans / int_a2022cc9	comment	Killed Mid-Sentence: In "Comrades" Philip decides to end a meeting with an Afghan anti-Soviet guerrilla this way.
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The Americans / int_a24bd0e9	type	Poison and Cure Gambit
The Americans / int_a24bd0e9	comment	Poison and Cure Gambit: The whole plot of "The Clock", in which Philip and Elizabeth do this in order to force a maid to plant a listening device in Caspar Weinberger's house.
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The Americans / int_a3458bf2	type	More Deadly Than the Male
The Americans / int_a3458bf2	comment	More Deadly Than the Male: While it's never established that Elizabeth is a better fighter than Philip, she is routinely characterized as a more ruthless and committed agent than Philip.
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The Americans / int_a4d189fc	type	Marrying the Mark
The Americans / int_a4d189fc	comment	Marrying the Mark: Philip (under the alias Clark) is already seducing Martha and using the intel that she receives as Stan's secretary. At the end of Season 1, though, he proposes to her, in return for her planting a bug in Stan's office. They marry (with help of the KGB) and she plants it. When the bug is discovered, Stan becomes suspicious of Martha and Philip reveals his true identity to Martha, then forces the USSR to help her escape to Russia, although he can never see her again.
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The Americans / int_a6c69bd	type	MacGuffin
The Americans / int_a6c69bd	comment	MacGuffin: Many are objectives of missions over the course of the series, with the most notable being the Echo floppy disk in Season 2, the Lassa Fever sample in Season 4, the "super wheat" in Season 5 and the lithium-based radiation sensor in Season 6.
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The Americans / int_a6e57875	type	Scrabble Babble
The Americans / int_a6e57875	comment	Scrabble Babble: Philip and Gabriel play Scrabble during their meetings in Season 3.
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The Americans / int_a806691d	type	Casanova Wannabe
The Americans / int_a806691d	comment	Casanova Wannabe: Chris Amador's frequent boasts about his sex life combined with his complete failure to charm Martha makes him come across as this. The number of women who leave messages on his answering machine seems to indicate that he is rather successful offscreen.
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The Americans / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
The Americans / int_a8559a9f	comment	Matthew Rhys (a Welshman) is one in-universe and in Real Life.
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The Americans / int_a864d2d8	type	Commie Land
The Americans / int_a864d2d8	comment	Commie Land: Moscow, as seen in Season 5.
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The Americans / int_a8982539	type	Gray Rain of Depression
The Americans / int_a8982539	comment	Gray Rain of Depression: The finale is clouded with really shitty weather, including a non-scripted snowstorm.
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The Americans / int_a8dcb1d7	type	Love at First Sight
The Americans / int_a8dcb1d7	comment	Love at First Sight: A one-sided example. At the start of the series it's fairly obvious that Philip cares deeply for Elizabeth, while Elizabeth still views her marriage to Philip as an assignment. It isn't until the third episode that Elizabeth admits that she's starting to feel love for Philip for the first time in their twenty-year marriage.
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The Americans / int_aabdf2c6	type	Tyke-Bomb
The Americans / int_aabdf2c6	comment	Tyke Bomb: What the KGB is hoping to get from a program for "second-generation illegals". They want to recruit the American-born children of their sleeper agents, who would have a much better chance than their parents to get into high-level government positions.
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The Americans / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
The Americans / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: While Russia is often shown to be no different from America, there are moments highlighting how different life in the Soviet Union was: One scene shows a Russian market where shoppers glumly browse sparse shelves in unflattering light. We later learn that this market is so bountiful by local standards that it's immediately suspicious. Flashbacks reveal a Russian infatuation with jeans and other bits of American culture in spite of harsh Soviet crackdowns.
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The Americans / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
The Americans / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: Paige and Matthew talk about his father Stan's dangerous job in "In Control". Paige says "My dad doesn't do stuff like that. He's just a travel agent." When Amador is killed, Stan goes to Philip to blow off steam. Philip is the one who has killed Amador, although Stan does not know that. When in the first season finale, Elizabeth is shot by Stan during a car chase, Stan knows the car contains agents but not who they are. The Jennings are forced underground while Elizabeth heals. They ask Stan to take care of their kids. In "Cardinal", Martha, spooked by the murders at the hotel, justifies buying a gun by saying "Clark, I don't want to be a victim". She is of course a victim of Philip, who has lied to her and tricked her into a sham marriage to use her as an intelligence source. Viewers will know that the dissolution of the USSR occurs in 1991, which is only four years away by the final season. The Communist ideals that Philip and Elizabeth fight for (and in which Elizabeth so fervently believes) are already in their final years.
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The Americans / int_ab8e26e2	type	Slipping a Mickey
The Americans / int_ab8e26e2	comment	Slipping a Mickey: A KGB agent does this to a Polish dissident in order to frame him for rape in "Duty and Honor".
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The Americans / int_ac12cde1	type	Bully Hunter
The Americans / int_ac12cde1	comment	Bully Hunter: Philip tries to intervene when a pedophile starts hitting on his daughter, but backs down and doesn't try to stop him from leaving with another girl, proving him to be a subversion of this trope. However, later in the episode, he snaps Timoshev's neck when he learns Timoshev raped Elizabeth during training. Even later, he beats the shit out of the pedophile and has to be stopped from murdering the target of a honey trap who beat Elizabeth during rough sex.
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The Americans / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Americans / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Elizabeth and Philip both have a subdued one when they realize their new neighbor Stan is an FBI agent who works in counterintelligence. The KGB officers in the embassy have one when they listen to the tape recorded at the house of the US Secretary of Defense. They are overjoyed over this massive intelligence coup, but then they get to the end of the conversation and hear that the Americans are planning a ballistic missile defense screen. The look on their deceased comrade's wife's face when she realizes they're spies. Philip gets a pretty spectacular one when he comes to Martha's apartment in "Covert War" and she confronts him with her parents. "The Colonel" gives us perhaps the most epic one yet when Claudia and Philip figure out the titular colonel is not the trap, the routine tape pickup Elizabeth was sent on is. "Do Mail Robots Dream of Electric Sheep?" gives one to an elderly bookkeeper who comes in late at night to do the bills for her family's Mail Robot repair shop....unfortunately at the same time the Jennings are planting a bug in a Mail Robot used by the FBI. Elizabeth watches over her, and the two strike up a casual conversation about their families....until the bookkeeper asks where Elizabeth's mother lives. "Jennings, Elizabeth" give the most earth shattering one when Philip realizes his meeting is being watched by the FBI and he needs to flee the country.
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The Americans / int_ad54954f	type	Punk in the Trunk
The Americans / int_ad54954f	comment	Punk in the Trunk: For most of the pilot episode-several days in-episode-the Jennings' Oldsmobile has a Soviet defector in the trunk.
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The Americans / int_ad9559e6	type	Arc Villain
The Americans / int_ad9559e6	comment	The Jennings investigate Season 2 Arc Villain Andrew Larrick, suspecting he killed the Connors extrajudicially in retaliation for their blackmail. Larrick had nothing to do with their murders, and the perpetrator was actually Jared Connors, the son.
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The Americans / int_add9abb3	type	The Missus and the Ex
The Americans / int_add9abb3	comment	The Missus and the Ex: Irina, Philip's old girlfriend from his life in Russia, shows up in "Duty and Honor" as part of a mission.
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The Americans / int_aeb62a57	type	No Delays for the Wicked
The Americans / int_aeb62a57	comment	No Delays for the Wicked: Generally played straight although, occasionally averted. The KGB is highly efficient. Forged government IDs? No problem. Safe houses across the Washington metro area? Got them. Files on American top-secret security personnel? Piece of cake. They even have an office facility that can pass itself off as the CIA's. Admittedly, the KGB has the advantage of surprise, by being undercover, they have the advantage of deciding where and when to strike, the US has to react to them.
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The Americans / int_aed65980	type	All for Nothing
The Americans / int_aed65980	comment	All for Nothing: The series ends with Phillip and Elizabeth giving up their lives in America, losing their children and returning to Moscow... in 1987. The duo are unaware that in just four years, the USSR will collapse, the KGB will be disbanded, and everything they spent a decade fighting for will be for a cause that was long lost.
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The Americans / int_aeec99a9	type	Immediate Sequel
The Americans / int_aeec99a9	comment	Immediate Sequel: Season 3 finale "March 8, 1983" is set on this date. Season 4 picks up the very next day with season premiere "Glanders".
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The Americans / int_afcafc5d	type	Drop Dead Gorgeous
The Americans / int_afcafc5d	comment	Drop Dead Gorgeous: There is a long, lingering shot of Annelise's naked corpse (face down) in "Baggage".
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The Americans / int_b42b7e7b	type	Moral Myopia
The Americans / int_b42b7e7b	comment	Moral Myopia: Elizabeth having a decade-long secret relationship with another dude? It's okay for her, because he was "passionate about her", while she herself clearly didn't feel that way about Philip at the time, and she apologized for it. Philip rekindling his relation with his first true love, after feeling betrayed by Elizabeth due to the events from an earlier episode, but immediately breaking it off? Kick the bastard out! Similarly, Elizabeth's dim view of Ronald Reagan often overlooks the fact that her country didn't have a great human rights record. Aside from Oleg, the Soviets are enraged that the Americans have purposely planted defective engineering plans, one of which results in the sinking of a Soviet submarine, killing everyone abroad. Oleg is the only one to question why the Soviet engineers did not find the defect and why more extensive testing was not done on the submarine before putting it in service. Also none of the Russians seem to consider that the disaster was caused by them stealing the plans and that they wouldn't have had this problem if they'd just designed their own submarine.
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The Americans / int_b6699566	type	His Own Worst Enemy
The Americans / int_b6699566	comment	His Own Worst Enemy: On a country-wide scale. The Soviet Union often sabotages itself — and its agents — in its attempts to mess with the US. Two standout examples from the first two seasons: In season 1, they decide to hire an assassin to take care of a group of scientists, only to change their minds... this decision never reaches the assassin in question, forcing Elizabeth and Philip to neutralize him... not early enough. This SNAFU ends in the death of a scientist and several FBI agents, which ultimately ends up escalating the Cold War. In season 2, they have the Jennings steal classified technology for submarines, which ends up backfiring on them - 160 Soviet sailors die because of it and they blame it on the US planting fake plans... except Oleg reveals to Arkady that the plans were fine, the Soviets used the designs on the wrong class of submarine and rushed testing.
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The Americans / int_b6cebad3	type	Double Standard
The Americans / int_b6cebad3	comment	When Philip flies off the handle, wanting to go after a mark who got too rough with Elizabeth, she lets him know that she doesn't need taking care of.
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The Americans / int_b7042372	type	Cycle of Revenge
The Americans / int_b7042372	comment	Cycle of Revenge: A rogue faction of the KGB causes the deaths of three FBI agents, and the Americans retaliate by killing a number of KGB officers. The KGB wants to end the feud, but some of their agents seek personal revenge for the deaths of their friends.
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The Americans / int_b7978bb4	type	Deadly Sparring
The Americans / int_b7978bb4	comment	Deadly Sparring: When she was newly recruited, Elizabeth was raped by her trainer at the end of an initially-friendly boxing session.
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The Americans / int_b9fc31d3	type	Victoria's Secret Compartment
The Americans / int_b9fc31d3	comment	Victoria's Secret Compartment: Where Annelise keeps her spy camera in "The Clock".
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The Americans / int_ba236071	type	It Makes Sense in Context
The Americans / int_ba236071	comment	Stan has a knack for unsanctioned work and is often following his own, accurate hunches. One time he bullies the guy in the stereo store without even a hint of a warrant, another he breaks into the Jennings' garage. When Amador is killed, this becomes even more pronounced, particularly in his speech about how hunting dogs carry the birds they catch to their master's feet to a terrified captured KGB agent. He's also the first to become suspicious of Martha and puts her under surveillance without telling the bosses.
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The Americans / int_bbf11c0	type	Genius Bruiser
The Americans / int_bbf11c0	comment	In his first scene of the series, Philip beats up a guy who had previously beaten up the entire Japanese Olympic judo team, revealing that he is badass. He also recalls the specific rank that team held when the guy beat them up, revealing that he is a Genius Bruiser.
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The Americans / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
The Americans / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: After six seasons and zero F-bombs, both Jennings parents fire one off in "Rififi".
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The Americans / int_bc3b029b	type	Impairment Shot
The Americans / int_bc3b029b	comment	Impairment Shot: Used when Philip wakes up in "Cardinal", after being zapped into unconsciousness by a footlocker that was actually electrified.
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The Americans / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
The Americans / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: Philip and Elizabeth are ruthless Soviet spies, but they are portrayed sympathetically. A big part of the series is the pair struggling between doing their duty and following their morality. Another part of the series is showing that, whatever its flaws, the USSR is populated by people who are just as human as the Americans and willing to fight just as hard for their homeland.
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The Americans / int_bf698238	type	When All You Have Is a Hammerâ€¦
The Americans / int_bf698238	comment	When All You Have Is a Hammerâ€¦: KGB tradecraft seems to mainly involve putting bullets through people's heads. Or seducing them. In most cases, it involves seducing someone, then putting a bullet through their head.
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The Americans / int_c0689dff	type	HoneyPot
The Americans / int_c0689dff	comment	Honey Pot: Both Philip and Elizabeth act as Honey Pots regularly. They almost never fail to seduce a target. Nina is a Honey Pot for Vasili after she gets turned by the FBI, and then for Stan after switching her loyalty back to the KGB. Philip gets his girlfriend Annelise to be a Honey Pot and seduce a Pakistani agent. She goes through with it but is very upset afterwards. Kate was this for Jared, after his parents refused to recruit him.
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The Americans / int_c10da874	type	The '80s
The Americans / int_c10da874	comment	The '80s: The series starts off in early 1981, right after Ronald Reagan's inauguration. The March 30, 1981 assassination attempt on Reagan is a major plot point, and the main arc of Season 1 is Russian attempts to find out details about American research into what later became Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, derisively nicknamed "Star Wars" (Henry's "Star Wars" bedsheets may or may not be a Historical In-Joke). The second season is set in 1982, and P and E discover the secret American support for Nicaragua's Contras, which would later become a major scandal. The third season starts in November 1982, soon after the death of Leonid Brezhnev. Yuri Andropov, Breznev's successor, is alluded to a couple times over the course of Series 2. The rest of the series continues through the decade, with the sixth and last season going through a three year Time Skip, ending around the time of the Washington Summit between Reagan and Gorbachev in December 1987.
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The Americans / int_c2ab0eaf	type	Double Agent
The Americans / int_c2ab0eaf	comment	Double Agent: Nina becomes this after coming clean to Arkady. Actually, given that she was a KGB officer to begin with, she's really a Triple Agent. Or perhaps a Double Reverse Quadruple Agent.
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The Americans / int_c2fc1ae	type	Neck Snap
The Americans / int_c2fc1ae	comment	Neck Snap: How Larrick the badass Navy SEAL dispatches Kate in "Stealth".
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The Americans / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
The Americans / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: The Jennings' longest-serving and most loyal employee is an immigrant from the Polish People's Republic who is nonetheless not one of their Soviet allies.
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The Americans / int_c3648b87	type	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork
The Americans / int_c3648b87	comment	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Philip and especially Elizabeth don't get along with Claudia, their new handler.
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The Americans / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
The Americans / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: In Chloramphenical, Oleg's father agrees to help Nina in exchange for Oleg remaining in the USSR. There is a scene of Nina being "transferred" suggesting that just that might be happening... except then she is told her sentence hasn't changed and she is unceremoniously shot in the back of the head.
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The Americans / int_c3c7d2e5	type	Criminal Procedural
The Americans / int_c3c7d2e5	comment	Criminal Procedural: The show examines what it takes to be an illegal spy (sleeper agent) in the United States. It involves murder and deception of regular people on a regular basis.
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The Americans / int_c5b47b36	type	Offscreen Moment of Awesome
The Americans / int_c5b47b36	comment	Offscreen Moment of Awesome: The Americans planted defective submarine plans for the KGB to steal, so that when the Soviets try to build those submarines themselves the resulting product will kill the Soviets who board them. None of this is shown on-screen, but the subsequent shock among the KGB characters is still palpable. Then again, insider Oleg thinks the sinking was simply incompetence on the part of the Soviet navy.
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The Americans / int_c601fc37	type	Professional Killer
The Americans / int_c601fc37	comment	Professional Killer: Both the Jennings are this in spades, but Elizabeth (at least as of the middle of season 2) comes off as the colder of the two.
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The Americans / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
The Americans / int_c660bc15	comment	Season 3 episode "Salang Pass" includes a flashback of Phillip going through KGB sex school. He is tasked with having sex with a hot lady. Then a wrinkled old lady. Then a fat man.
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The Americans / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Americans / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Episode "Stingers" is full of them. Stan goes to see Tootsie, and there is a poster for The Verdict outside the theater. Henry does an imitation of Eddie Murphy's "Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood" from Saturday Night Live. And the last one is obscure enough to verge on Genius Bonus. The day after Phil and Liz confess their true identities to Paige, they come home to find her watching an episode of General Hospital— specifically, a scene from a plot line in which one of the handsome young doctors at General Hospital is eventually exposed as a Russian illegal spy. Season 6 premiere "Dead Hand" has Paige, who is getting more immersed in Russian culture now that she's starting her own career as a KGB spy, watching the Oscar-winning Russian film Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears. Later in the season, in "The Summit", a depressed Philip rents another Russian film, The Garage.
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The Americans / int_c9993b95	type	Bureaucratically Arranged Marriage
The Americans / int_c9993b95	comment	The USSR didnâ€™t have strangers pose as married couples like Philip and Elizabeth were when they started. They usually used couples where both spouses were spies as their deep cover agents or less frequently used couples where one was an agent and recruited the other spouse.
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The Americans / int_ce6b54d9	type	Enemy Eats Your Lunch
The Americans / int_ce6b54d9	comment	Enemy Eats Your Lunch: In the pilot, after a child predator makes crude remarks about his daughter, Philip catches the guy barbecuing in his backyard. Philip beats his ass and then walks away with a hot dog off of his grill.
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The Americans / int_cfa546f4	type	Mother Russia Makes You Strong
The Americans / int_cfa546f4	comment	Mother Russia Makes You Strong: A recurring, conversed theme, usually in tandem with "cushy America makes you weak." Elizabeth believes that "there's a weakness" among Americans (very specifically, the white middle class she occupies), and wants to subtly encourage her children to become socialists, or at least sympathetic to the radicals of the recent past who she admired deeply. Claudia is also skeptical towards American women since she considers them not being used to really struggle for a better life—as opposed to her own country's history, where the women's equality movement was very closely tied to violent communist revolution. At the time, in pure terms of elected representatives in office compared to the US, she's ''technically'' correct. When discussing that a 5'4'' woman knocked out two FBI agents, one of them remarks "they make them tough over there."
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The Americans / int_cfbbd075	type	Porn Stash
The Americans / int_cfbbd075	comment	Porn Stash: Paige catches pubescent Henry with a photo of Sandra Beeman in a bikini top that he has no good reason to possess. Later, episode "Stingers" reveals that it's part of a collection of photos of scantily-clad ladies that Henry has torn from newspapers and magazines, and has hidden under the floorboards of his closet.
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The Americans / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
The Americans / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: Larrick is an interesting case. On one hand, he is as ruthless and willing to use extreme violence as the Jennings. On the other hand, he serves for the right side of history, and would have had nothing to do with the KGB if they hadn't been threatening to reveal his homosexuality. Further complicating matters, when he actually begins to threaten the Jennings, he is chiefly driven out of his desire for revenge after Phillip murdered two of his friends.
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The Americans / int_d058677e	type	Amusement Park
The Americans / int_d058677e	comment	Amusement Park: In "Comrades" the Jennings family visit one to see another Deep Cover Agent family.
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The Americans / int_d0b94038	type	You Keep Telling Yourself That
The Americans / int_d0b94038	comment	You Keep Telling Yourself That: Pastor Tim is not at all fooled by Elizabeth's "Not So Different" Remark about their work. He points out that in the Soviet Union, religious people are persecuted, bringing up not only the plight of Soviet Christians but also the Jews. Elizabeth is thus reduced to admitting her country is not perfect.
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The Americans / int_d0c30f35	type	Did I Mention It's Christmas?
The Americans / int_d0c30f35	comment	Did I Mention It's Christmas?: The last episode of the series, "START", takes place in early December 1987. As Phil and Liz are frantically trying to escape as the FBI hunts for them, there are Christmas decorations everywhere.
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The Americans / int_d2f3b5a3	type	Replacement Flat Character
The Americans / int_d2f3b5a3	comment	Replacement Flat Character: Tuan is this to Elizabeth. Although her dedication is unquestionable, his outspoken commitment highlights how much Elizabeth has softened since first coming to America.
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The Americans / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
The Americans / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: Amador and his knife. In "Mutually Assured Destruction," Elizabeth kills the West German assassin by tossing his own bomb at him just as he sets it off. The Soviets actively steal American engineering designs. One of those designs are defective and when the Soviets try it on their sub the whole thing sinks.
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The Americans / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
The Americans / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Philip gives Elizabeth a major tongue lashing after he finds out that she told their handlers that he seems to like living in America a bit too much. Comments like that could get him executed, and he views it as a major betrayal. He also gives her a bit of this after she murders a security guard in "In Control". Gaad gives it to Stan when the latter asks him to help about Nina. He flats-out refusing to listen at all, after being sacrificed for the Vlad murder mess.
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The Americans / int_d5d34629	type	Treachery Is a Special Kind of Evil
The Americans / int_d5d34629	comment	Treachery Is a Special Kind of Evil: In the pilot episode, the Jennings kidnap and later kill a former KGB agent who defected to America. Truth in Television, by the way: the Soviets had no tolerance for traitors, and they would often launch covert operations to assassinate defectors. Soviet defectors often spent the rest of their days hiding under new identities.
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The Americans / int_d6d05fba	type	The Help Helping Themselves
The Americans / int_d6d05fba	comment	The Help Helping Themselves: Invoked in the final season. Elizabeth takes a job as a nurse for the ailing wife of an American diplomat so that she can plant surveillance bugs on the husband's clothing, allowing the Centre to get some insight into what the Americans are planning in their peace talks with Russia. Since she's "the help", the couple just assume that she's "borrowing" their clothing whenever a coat or a vest goes missing for a day or two, and never guess that something more devious is at work.
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The Americans / int_d72edeb0	type	Fake Guest Star
The Americans / int_d72edeb0	comment	Fake Guest Star: Richard Thomas as Frank Gaad, Stan Beeman's supervisor at the FBI. Nearly two seasons in and Thomas has appeared in every episode of the series except one. Keidrich Sellati and Holly Taylor, who play the Jennings children, have appeared in fewer episodes, despite being main cast members Richard Thomas is finally Promoted to Opening Credits in Season 3.
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The Americans / int_d833090a	type	Right Hand Versus Left Hand
The Americans / int_d833090a	comment	Right Hand Versus Left Hand: A group within the KGB hired an assassin to kill fourteen American scientists. Apparently they did so without informing their superiors who realize that this could start a war and order Philip and Elisabeth to stop the assassin at all costs. Philip invokes this when he is impersonating an FBI agent from the Oversight group. He complains that the other FBI divisions do not share information with them and then Oversight gets blamed because they do not know what is going on. This is a ploy to convince his asset/lover to give him information FBI counterintelligence has gathered on an assassin. It grows even more complicated when he later marries his mark. Phillip and Elizabeth first approach Larrick posing as American intelligence agents, but he sees through the ruse fairly quickly, especially when he later discovers Phillip tailing him. In Season 6, factions within Russia begin working to opposing ends through KGB agents in America. Philip and Elizabeth side with opposite factions, at least for a time.
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The Americans / int_d842e380	type	Love Redeems
The Americans / int_d842e380	comment	Love Redeems / Love Makes You Crazy: Or at least less rational. Philip was ready and willing to deliver the KGB defector to the USA and defect himself, in order to get a better life for his family than he could reasonably expect in Russia. However, once he gets to learns that said defector raped Elizabeth, he kills him with his bare hands, effectively cementing his career as a Soviet spy. Elizabeth on the other hand, who until then was cold and distant toward Philip, starts to warm up to him after this.
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The Americans / int_d8afec40	type	â€¦But He Sounds Handsome
The Americans / int_d8afec40	comment	â€¦But He Sounds Handsome: Elizabeth can't resist making offhanded remarks about how cool the Soviet Union's accomplishments are ("walking on the moon is OK, but getting into space is the real thing")
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The Americans / int_da46a2c0	type	Hollywood Atheist
The Americans / int_da46a2c0	comment	Hollywood Atheist: Elizabeth. She reacts to Paige's joining a church youth group as if her daughter takes to drugs or prostitution. As a rule, while the average Soviets did frown upon religion, they wouldn't exactly freak out like Elizabeth either. Even Philip has to tell her to cool it a bit-she'd been shown to take stereotypical Soviet values far more seriously than him already.
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The Americans / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
The Americans / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Elizabeth. She also counts as a Dark Action Girl.
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The Americans / int_db33bc7e	type	Ludicrous Gibs
The Americans / int_db33bc7e	comment	Ludicrous Gibs: In "Mutually Assured Destruction", Elizabeth kills a professional assassin by tossing a bomb at him right before it detonates. Afterward there is nothing left of the man but a mess of blood and tissue covering the floor and walls.
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The Americans / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
The Americans / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: Both season one and season two have arcs within the Jennings family that don't pan out as expected: Season 1 seems to paint early on that Phillip has a desire to defect, but once Elizabeth is nearly mortally wounded we realize each of them are still very committed to the cause, but have different attitudes to life in their posting. Season 2 amps up Paige's suspicion that something is not right about her parents - to the point of snooping through their belongings and then walking on them having sex. While she ultimately doesn't discover the truth, her suspicious nature may take on a new angle - as her parents have now been ordered to prepare Paige for eventual indoctrination as a KGB agent. At several points in Season 2, it appears that Clark/Phillip's sham marriage to Martha has become too complicated to be useful, with Elizabeth even posing as Clark's sister and getting her drunk to pump her for information about Phillip. While by the end of the season Martha is still OK, the relationship has grown more complicated when Clark discovers Martha has bought a gun for protection, against his wishes and that Martha has known for quite a while that Phillip is wearing a toupee when he poses as Clark. Martha's Chekhov's Gun, bought, much to Philip's unpleasant surprise, in episode 2-2, "Cardinal". Martha takes target practice with it in Season 3 premiere "EST Men". Martha's storyline ended in Season 4, with the gun never fired. The Jennings investigate Season 2 Arc Villain Andrew Larrick, suspecting he killed the Connors extrajudicially in retaliation for their blackmail. Larrick had nothing to do with their murders, and the perpetrator was actually Jared Connors, the son.
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The Americans / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
The Americans / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: Who moves in right next door to two Soviet Deep Cover Agents? An FBI agent who works in counterintelligence and is hunting Soviet agents, that's who. Somewhat excused by the fact that it's a Washington, D.C. suburb with a high density of government employees. Lampshaded by Elizabeth: "FBI agents have to live somewhere."
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The Americans / int_dda99fa8	type	Despair Event Horizon
The Americans / int_dda99fa8	comment	Despair Event Horizon: The wife of an American working for the Russians died and he is on the verge of a mental breakdown. His handler is convinced that if he can just talk to the man, he would be able to calm him down and bring him back from the brink. However, the Russians cannot get away from FBI surveillance so Elizabeth is ordered to kill the man before he does something that would expose the spy ring. In the same episode Claudia recounts the story of one of her assets in West Germany. The Russians decided that he was not useful anymore and recalled Claudia back. Shortly after being abandoned, the man killed himself since spying for the Russians had become his main purpose in life.
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The Americans / int_de04e30c	type	Tears of Remorse
The Americans / int_de04e30c	comment	Tears of Remorse: Elizabeth after she forces the elderly bookkeeper to kill herself.
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The Americans / int_de763115	type	Hollywood Board Games
The Americans / int_de763115	comment	Hollywood Board Games: In "Do Mail Robots Dream of Electric Sheep?", Gabriel and Philip play Scrabble as a bonding activity. They talk about love and marriage and exchange quips about the words they form with their tiles.
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The Americans / int_e08ada88	type	Famous-Named Foreigner
The Americans / int_e08ada88	comment	Famous-Named Foreigner: Claudia is close friends with a General Zhukov, but not that General Zhukov.
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The Americans / int_e11b003d	type	Translation Convention
The Americans / int_e11b003d	comment	Translation Convention: Notably absent, with all Russian dialogue depicted in Russian, which can lead to around 1/4 of the dialogue in an episode being subtitled. This is also partly why Philip and Elizabeth are forbidden from speaking Russian, as their actors would have to reveal their thick American accents. Only a couple phrases of Russian are spoken by them here and there in the series.
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The Americans / int_e13156e1	type	Mama Bear
The Americans / int_e13156e1	comment	Mama Bear: Claudia is revealed as this in the final episode of season 1.
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The Americans / int_e154ff08	type	Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique
The Americans / int_e154ff08	comment	Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Philip is subjected to this in "Trust Me" when the KGB is trying to determine if he is a mole.
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The Americans / int_e1f9753e	type	The Handler
The Americans / int_e1f9753e	comment	The Handler: Claudia ("Granny") is this for Philip and Elizabeth, taking over from their previous handler at the start of the show. She and Elizabeth don't get along in the early seasons. In Season 2, Philip and Elizabeth get a new handler named Kate after expressing their displeasure with Claudia to the higher-ups. At the end of Season 2, Claudia returns, ordering Phillip and Elizabeth to begin preparing Paige for eventual service in the KGB, as they had intended for Jared to do. In Season 3 an older agent named Gabriel, their handler prior to Claudia, comes out of retirement to work with them. Claudia's back again for Season 6, manipulating Elizabeth on behalf of a rogue faction of the KGB.
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The Americans / int_e26cfcc4	type	Ironic Episode Title
The Americans / int_e26cfcc4	comment	Ironic Episode Title: The series finale was titled "START", a reference to the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty that was then starting to be negotiated, but also an obvious joke.
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The Americans / int_e27693	type	The Coup
The Americans / int_e27693	comment	The Coup: The plot of "In Control" revolves around the attempted assassination of President Reagan, and the Russian government's fears that it's a coup by Secretary of State Alexander Haig- because that's how it would happen in Russia. Attempted and failed by The Center during Season 6, in an effort to oust Gorbachev.
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The Americans / int_e399c1dd	type	Manly Gay
The Americans / int_e399c1dd	comment	Manly Gay / Straight Gay: Larrick in Season 2. Blackmailed into working for the KGB, because he's a homosexual. Also a badass Navy SEAL who is exceptionally good at tracking down and killing people.
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The Americans / int_e4b69188	type	Very Loosely Based on a True Story
The Americans / int_e4b69188	comment	Very Loosely Based on a True Story: Creator Joseph Weisberg, who actually worked for the CIA from 1990 to 1994, was inspired by a totally real 2010 story in which the FBI arrested ten Russian deep cover agents. One of the couples in that 2010 "Illegals Program" was apparently enlisting one of their kids as a second-generation spy when the group was busted.note That's since been heatedly denied by the kids. The scene in "The Clock" where Elizabeth poisons some guy by stabbing him with a tricked-out umbrella is inspired by the real-life murder of a Bulgarian dissident in London in 1978. Mohammad Yousaf, the Pakistani officer in charge of training and supporting the Mujahideen, shares a name with a similar, real-world person.
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The Americans / int_e4c0b2b6	type	Primal Scene
The Americans / int_e4c0b2b6	comment	Primal Scene: In the second-season premiere, Paige walks in on her parents going 69 on each other. Ick.
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The Americans / int_e6132e31	type	Old Flame
The Americans / int_e6132e31	comment	Old Flame: Philip reunites with his ex-girlfriend Irina to discredit a Polish pro-democracy leader.
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The Americans / int_e70127	type	The Mole
The Americans / int_e70127	comment	The Mole: Not our leads (who are sleeper agents) but Nina, a KGB officer stationed at the Soviet embassy, who the FBI caught stealing and smuggling caviar. Stan pressures her into working for them to avoid being turned over to the Soviet authorities. Martha is this without even realizing it, when "Clark" convinces her to spy on the FBI by saying it's a counterintelligence op. Eventually she figures this out, but rather than turning herself in, she becomes Philip's willing mole.
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The Americans / int_e7ae07f5	type	Briefcase Full of Money
The Americans / int_e7ae07f5	comment	Briefcase Full of Money: Philip hands one of these over in exchange for sensitive information in "Gregory", but not before he uses it to bust up a couple of Mooks who wouldn't get out of his blind spot.
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The Americans / int_e7db27c7	type	Sympathetic P.O.V.
The Americans / int_e7db27c7	comment	Sympathetic P.O.V.: The show's focus reveals that the two leads really aren't bad people, but are forced to do heinous things for their country.
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The Americans / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
The Americans / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Invoked by Philip when he approaches Arkady in a public place. It is a gross violation of operational security and Philip does it specifically to let Moscow know how deadly serious he is about making sure that his children are off-limits and that he will never permit that they be recruited as spies, without consent of him and his wife.
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The Americans / int_eab212a8	type	Period Piece
The Americans / int_eab212a8	comment	Period Piece: The series is set in the '80s, at the height of the Cold War.
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The Americans / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
The Americans / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: Elizabeth does this to an uncooperative bookie in "Duty and Honor".
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The Americans / int_eb28ab57	type	Bound and Gagged
The Americans / int_eb28ab57	comment	Bound and Gagged: Larrick does this to KGB handler Kate after overpowering her. This trope is often used for Fanservice but in this instance is very scary and disturbing.
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The Americans / int_eed678bf	type	Deep Cover Agent
The Americans / int_eed678bf	comment	"Directorate S", the KGB program which has installed deep cover agents in the United States masquerading as American citizens. The Jennings' aren't even allowed to speak Russian to each other at home, and were instructed to never ask the other about their actual background, instead only learning their invented back stories.
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The Americans / int_f1492605	type	Redemption Equals Death
The Americans / int_f1492605	comment	Redemption Equals Death: Col. Larrick at the end of season two resolves to capture the Jenningses and turn them over to the American government, and to confess to his own involvement with them and his betrayal of his country and his brothers-in-arms, saying that he doesn't care what happens to him. Just at the moment he seems on the brink of success, Jared shoots him in the shoulder, and then Phillip in the resulting struggle kills him. After Nina is returned to the Soviet Union and imprisoned for spying on them, she is given the opportunity to improve her situation by spying on and betraying the confidence of her cellmate. After she does so, her next task is to do the same for Anton, the scientist kidnapped in an earlier season. Rather than take advantage of the woman his captors seemingly offer him, he tells her how guilty he is for losing his family, and notes that in order to retain one's independence one must refuse any benefits offered by their masters. When she finds the letters he is secretly writing for his son, she decides to smuggle them out rather than rat him out. Even Anton is shocked by this, but she is confident it's the right thing. She is caught and promptly executed as a result.
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The Americans / int_f2bb1fb4	type	Let Off by the Detective
The Americans / int_f2bb1fb4	comment	Let Off by the Detective: Stan has the Jennings dead to rights in the finale, but ultimately lets them go.
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The Americans / int_f3626b09	type	Mercy Kill
The Americans / int_f3626b09	comment	Mercy Kill: Elizabeth shoots Hans after he becomes infected with Lassa Fever. Elizabeth euthanizes Erica after her husband gave her an overdose of morphine that didn't work, at her request.
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The Americans / int_f612d2d	type	Ignored Vital News Reports
The Americans / int_f612d2d	comment	Ignored Vital News Reports: The first person to hear of the death of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev (a fact which will have major implications on the series) is Paige, who listens to the news for a second before flipping to The Jeffersons.
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The Americans / int_f642b1f9	type	You Bastard!
The Americans / int_f642b1f9	comment	You Bastard!: It's way too easy for the audience to forget that our protagonists are, in fact, ruthless career murderers serving a deeply flawed government. Baklanov's desperate pleading to Philip at the end of "The Deal" is a painful reminder of that fact.
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The Americans / int_f7883b17	type	Love Makes You Dumb
The Americans / int_f7883b17	comment	Love Makes You Dumb: Martha and Stan. Both are completely played by their supposed lovers.
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The Americans / int_f8e010ce	type	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good
The Americans / int_f8e010ce	comment	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: When Reagan gets shot, Elizabeth believes there is some sort of power play behind the scenes in the American government meant for the war hawks to take over, just like how things happen in the Soviet Union. She never considers that it was just some random psychopath, or that the war hawks might not be interested in taking over.
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The Americans / int_f8ffd45	type	Pictorial Letter Substitution
The Americans / int_f8ffd45	comment	Pictorial Letter Substitution: "The Americans" is stylized in the title sequence with a hammer and sickle symbol in place of the "c".
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The Americans / int_fab98c53	type	American Title
The Americans / int_fab98c53	comment	American Title: The Americans, an example of the more cynical use of this trope.
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The Americans / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
The Americans / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: Philip is established right away as more sensitive and less zealous than Elizabeth, but he's still a Russian agent and also significantly larger. Philip occasionally reminds the audience that he's perfectly capable of murder, and Elizabeth often relies on his brute strength to overcome an opponent. Stan Beeman is a nice guy and a heroic FBI agent, but he's also capable of getting dirty and even murders a man out of vengeance.
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The Americans / int_fd7267dd	type	Master of Disguise
The Americans / int_fd7267dd	comment	Master of Disguise: Phillip and Elizabeth, with their numerous false identities, are good at transforming their appearance. Lampshaded by Gregory in "Only You", in which he directly states "You guys are the masters of disguise".
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The Americans / int_fdb3b2b5	type	Lady Drunk
The Americans / int_fdb3b2b5	comment	Lady Drunk: The embittered middle-aged CIA officer who passes classified info to Elizabeth over drinks in a bar in "EST Men." She has immediate second thoughts, with unfortunate consequences for Elizabeth.
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The Americans / int_fe1ccea	type	Evil Parents Want Good Kids
The Americans / int_fe1ccea	comment	Evil Parents Want Good Kids: Philip and Elizabeth are not evil per se, but they make it very clear that they don't want their kids to follow them into their lives of espionage.
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The Americans / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
The Americans / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: The KGB is a brutal secret police organization whose agents and officers are responsible for a multitude of murders, tortures, abductions, sabotages, and human rights violations. Even so, they vehemently oppose South Africa's apartheid and institutional racism.
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The Americans / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
The Americans / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: To a surprising degree; the entire arc around the Reagan assassination, for example, is based on actual KGB chatter and analysis. During the Cold War, male Stasi "Romeo" agents would seduce and even marry the secretaries of West German government officials, and would then spend months or even years extracting information from them. This is exactly the same thing that Philip/Clark ends up doing to Martha. In one episode, Elizabeth meets an asset in a movie theater named "The Key", which was an arthouse movie theater in Washington that existed and was very busy during the 1980's (but closed down in the early 1990's).
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