The evolving intimacy and blurred legitimacy of the Jennings’ marriage imbues The Americans, which is so very clearly about the world’s most fucked up marriage more than it is about espionage, with deep questions about trust, dependency, and ambition. It also sets up some crazy, screwed up stuff with their family (aka some GREAT television). The KGB wants Elizabeth and Philip’s daughter, Paige, who has no clue as to her parents’ real identities, to enter the family business. As an American-born teen raised oblivious to her parents’ spy lives, she could infiltrate the U.S. government at levels her parents could never do.