Occasional thoughts about The Americans #1

The Americans is a flawless entry into the canon of Imperialist Russian literature:

1. Massively hung up on abstract philosophical problems. It's a six-season meditation on the nature of ideology, liberalism, aestheticism, nihilism, intergenerational conflict ... just pick a lens.
2. Self-conscious regarding Russia's relation to the cultures of the West. I mean have you met Phil and Elizabeth.
3. A defiance of norms in the form. The stakes are often shockingly low – the structure remains tightly focused, and radically interpersonal where Western-rooted examples of the form would ratchet the spectacle.

Do not attempt to change my mind.