Creator Joe Weisberg told TVGuide.com at Sunday’s Writers Guild Awards, where The Americans won best drama series, that the writers obviously follow the stranger-than-fiction real Russian hacking news — and most importantly, the jokes.
The Americans is a period drama about Soviet spies posing as Average Joe travel agents in the United States, set in the 1980s — but lately, it feels very contemporary.
Season 5 of The Americans premieres Tuesday, March 7 at 10/9c on FX.
But despite cracking up at their Twitter feeds, Weisberg says they deliberately try to live in a bubble as much as possible during production to stay true to the show.