For the past few weeks, my Twitter mentions have been filled with indignation over the existence of "Allegiance," the new NBC drama starring Hope Davis and Scott Cohen as Russian deep cover agents who are pressured to recruit one of their kids to the cause. Most of them go something like this: @sepinwall The NBC promo for Allegiance might as well say, "We literally just ripped off The Americans from FX." — Clint Ward (@BTR331) January 12, 2015 And I get it. Yes, "Allegiance" (which debuts tonight at 10) is based on an Israeli series, and there are some notable differences from the FX drama: it's set in present-day, the parents are retired spies reluctantly forced back into active service, they have two adult kids (one of whom, played by Gavin Stenhouse, works for the CIA), etc. But the premise is so similar to "The Americans" — and particularly to recent plot developments on that...
- 2/5/2015
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
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