It’s a show set in the 80s about two KGB spies in America. It’s got good reviews but I don’t wanna watch anti-commie propaganda tbh
Yeah it was bad that we showered hundreds of thousands of villagers directly with napalm (and murdered over two million by other means), but have you considered how much of a gross violation of human rights it was for them to make John McCain eat ants and break his arms to stop him from masturbating?
it does do the "communism is when no food" but since the main characters are main characters of a show with 5?6? seasons it paints them (and the ussr, just a little bit) as very sympathetic. it IS written by a former CIA guy though so
i personally loved the show but i also saw all of it before getting radicalized. i adore so many side characters in the show, i love the season plot of s2 + 4, some of my favorite tv. granted i havent watched the show at all since it ended so i have no idea if i'd like it NOW
Yup loved it too but saw it as an NPR lib. That being said, I remember when they were supporting groups for black liberation (i cant remember if it was the actual black panthers in the show) I was like "damn that's cool of them" lol
On quality merits, I thought it was a meh TV show and dropped it.
One of my favorite shows. It’s more of a character focused show with spying and politics to drive the plot forward. I think anyone here could watch it and root for the Soviets, while libs root for the FBI. There are great, interesting characters on both sides.
Yup, watched it as a lib but my favorite characters were probably Arkady and the KGB grandma lol
There’s an execution scene that plays out how I think executions of really horrible bourgeoisie would be in a revolution, kinda like what happened in Cuba post revolution.
I dropped off sometime in the first season. A janitor lady or something was spying for the Reds and had a baby. Her cover was blown and she had to be taken away. Her KGB handlers promised she and her kid would grow up on a Cuban beach. Instead they shoot her and her kid is sent to a hilariously miserable Russian apartment building in the middle of an ice-and-gloom wasteland. Kinda dumb.
