50 Shades of Beige   Why  The Americans’  set design is far less simple than it looks. By  Sarah Archer SLATE

‘The Americans’ and the rewards of period genre pieces Jaime Weinman explains why good period pieces resonate beyond time and place Jaime Weinman March 11, 2013 macleans

4 MINUTE READ   MOST CREATIVE PEOPLE Listen Closely: FX's "The Americans" Will Send You Straight Back To 1982 Between disco and and hair metal there existed an ambiguous musical era that brought us both "Pac-Man Fever" and "In The Air Tonight." For the  The Americans  music supervisor PJ Bloom,...

Why The Americans is the Best Period Piece on TV By Jen Chaney April 23, 2015 6:00 am tvinsider   WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD

...Weisberg on 'The Americans' After years of being adored by critics but ignored by the TV Academy, the FX series  The Americans  is finally having its Emmy moment. Executive producers Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields tell us how their partnership is a match made in show-runner heaven, why they work so...