Referring to the Guardian review that depicts the premise of the show--with undercover Soviet spies living in the U.S. as Americans--as "preposterous": I'm always fascinated when people talk about it that way. Do these people not know that KGB illegals were real? And that there was a high-profile, recentish news story about an entire group of illegals being hunted down and exposed that actually was the impetus for making the show in the first place?

I mean, there are plenty of things that are different about the show from real life--the real-life illegals did more of the long-term, hardcore undercover work and less of the actiony assassiny stuff that often gets portrayed on the show. But the premise itself is hardly preposterous.

-J