FX Considered Making The Americans a Broader Show. Instead, It Became a Better One

While The Americans is now one of TV's most critically-acclaimed shows, the FX drama, which stars Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell as Russian spies undercover as a suburban D.C. family in the 1980s, almost took a radically different path after its first season. While the spy genre is often "broadly commercial," said FX Networks CEO...