Set during the Cold War period in the 1980s, The Americans is the story of Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, two Soviet KGB officers posing as an American married couple in the suburbs of Washington D.C. and their neighbor, Stan Beeman, an FBI Counterintelligence agent.
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- Seasons
- 6
- Episodes aired
- 75
- Latest aired
- S06E10
- Total runtime
- 2d 12h
Timeline when each season aired
- Season 1 January 2013 – May 2013 13 episodes
- Season 2 February 2014 – May 2014 13 episodes
- Season 3 January 2015 – April 2015 13 episodes
- Season 4 March 2016 – June 2016 13 episodes
- Season 5 March 2017 – May 2017 13 episodes
- Season 6 March 2018 – May 2018 10 episodes
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S04E01 Glanders
March 16 · 51min find the promo
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Philip and Elizabeth deal with the fallout of all they’ve wrought. What will happen when the FBI finds out about Gene’s suicide? How will Pastor Tim deal with the revelation that they are Russian spies? And will they be able to handle a dangerous, new bioweapons assignment?
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S04E02 Pastor Tim
March 23 · 48min find the promo
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Philip tries with increasing desperation to get rid of a sensitive and dangerous package as family tensions in the Jennings House reach a boiling point when Paige shares a secret of her own.
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S04E03 Experimental Prototype City of Tomorrow
March 30 · 44min find the promo
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Paige copes with new burdens that come with her family’s secret as Philip and Elizabeth struggle to contain their cover without destroying their daughter.
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S04E04 Chloramphenicol
April 6 · 44min find the promo
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A devastating flaw during a mission forces Philip, Elizabeth, William and Gabriel to confront the depths of their patriotism… and their mortality. In Russia, in striving to be a better person, has Nina put her life on the line?
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S04E05 Clark's Place
April 13 · 50min find the promo
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Philip must consider his life with Martha and make a crushing choice from which there is no coming back.
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S04E06 The Rat
April 20 · 45min find the promo
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Martha must finally face the truth she has denied – and her life may never be the same. Plus, a chilling new development in William’s work forces the Jennings to face the realities of what a biological war would mean.
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S04E07 Travel Agents
April 27 · 43min find the promo
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The KGB and the FBI both race to track down a vital agent… everything is at stake.
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S04E08 The Magic of David Copperfield V: The Statue of Liberty Disappears
May 4 · 51min find the promo
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The Jennings’s approach their breaking points as both Philip and Elizabeth must handle loyal agents. Will they make it through with their patriotism – and sanity – intact?
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S04E09 The Day After
May 11 · 46min find the promo
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The Day After premieres, making the stakes - and terrible consequences - of the Cold War plain. Even with that in mind, will Elizabeth be able to complete the painful process of the "Patty" operation?
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S04E10 Munchkins
May 18 · 49min find the promo
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When Paige’s long-ago indiscretion threatens to resurface and destroy the family, Philip and Elizabeth find themselves scrambling – and Paige finds herself reevaluating who her parents really are.
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S04E11 Dinner for Seven
May 25 · 43min find the promo
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Elizabeth completes the last steps of a very personal operation… but at what cost?
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S04E12 A Roy Rogers in Franconia
June 1 · 46min find the promo
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As Paige deals with last episode’s trauma, she sees her mother in a new light… and finds she has inherited some of her parents’ skills. Plus, has Oleg reached his breaking point with Stan?
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S04E13 Persona Non Grata
June 8 · 53min find the promo
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Philip and Elizabeth are in a high-stakes race against the FBI to recover a hazardous package. Will they get there in time? And will Paige follow her parents into the family business?