Since 2013, FX has spent the beginning of each year launching a new season of its drama The Americans, which stars Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell as Russian spies masquerading as a suburban D.C. family in the 1980s. But tonight’s Season 5 premiere of TV’s best series comes as the topic of U.S.-Russian relations and espionage has become astonishingly relevant again.
However, FX’s marketing team didn’t consider leaning into current events with this season’s Americans campaign.
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