Post by Eλευθερί on May 17, 2018 23:02:45 GMT
"The Americans" gets the tradecraft and the technology of the 1980s generally right, at least the way it worked when Ronald Reagan was president....
It is all properly executed; it is done the way we did it, and it is one of many ways that Joe Weisberg, the creator of this series and a former CIA officer himsef, shows his hand and his familiarity with CIA tactics and methods. He and I went to the same tradecraft school at the agency, and we learned the same lessons. When I watched Matthew Rhys, the husband on "The Americans," speed in reverse through an FBI roadblock in the final episode of Season 1, well, I have practiced this maneuver countless times, wrecking more than one car while learning the procedure. They did it right.
The makeup artists for "The Americans" do, too....
Where does "The Americans" go astray? The sex and violence are over the top and gratuitous but probably deemed necessary by the writers. I disagree. I was taught to shoot at static targets and out of moving vehicles with a variety of guns, but in nearly three decades on the job I never carried one. Never had to kill anyone, although I almost got shot myself.
It is all properly executed; it is done the way we did it, and it is one of many ways that Joe Weisberg, the creator of this series and a former CIA officer himsef, shows his hand and his familiarity with CIA tactics and methods. He and I went to the same tradecraft school at the agency, and we learned the same lessons. When I watched Matthew Rhys, the husband on "The Americans," speed in reverse through an FBI roadblock in the final episode of Season 1, well, I have practiced this maneuver countless times, wrecking more than one car while learning the procedure. They did it right.
The makeup artists for "The Americans" do, too....
Where does "The Americans" go astray? The sex and violence are over the top and gratuitous but probably deemed necessary by the writers. I disagree. I was taught to shoot at static targets and out of moving vehicles with a variety of guns, but in nearly three decades on the job I never carried one. Never had to kill anyone, although I almost got shot myself.
Of course, just because this one spy didn't carry a gun and allegedly didn't ever kill anyone doesn't mean that the same was true for her fellow spies.
