The Americans: Tropes

Signature tropes

The ones that say the most about The Americans. Pick one to read it.

• Right Hand Versus Left Handin 119 titlesA group within the KGB hired an assassin to kill fourteen American scientists.Read →
• His Own Worst Enemyin 80 titlesOn a country-wide scale. The Soviet Union often sabotages itself — and its agents — in its attempts to mess with the US.Read →
• Artistic License – Historyin 3,078 titlesThe show is premised on American and Soviet agents committing brazen assassinations as part of the Cold War.Read →
• Mother Russia Makes You Strongin 86 titlesA recurring, conversed theme, usually in tandem with "cushy America makes you weak."Read →
• Villains Out Shoppingin 439 titlesThe trope may as well be named after this show.Read →
• This Means War!in 133 titlesIn 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.Read →