Ice, Vodka and Russian Red: F/X Celebrates the Blu-ray release of The Americans, Season 1

F/X Networks The Americans came out on Blu-ray and DVD this week, and F/X celebrated that in proper Russian style: with vodka.

The event, held at Nic’s Vodka Bar in Beverly Hills, featured a Americans style drink (complete with a hammer and sickle motif in the ice cubes), a lazer etching device to put your name (and The Americans logo) right on your cell phone case, and not to be overlooked, a walk in freezer filled floor to ceiling with vodka.

Executive Producers Graham Yost, Darrel Frank and Producer Justin Falvey were on hand to give interviews and discuss the dizzying twists and turns of  The Americans: Season 1, as well as where Season 2 might take Philip and Elizabeth Jennings.

The Americans Season 1 Blue-ray comes with 4 discs (the DVD pack has four) containing all 13 episodes, and the following features:

An audio commentary for “The Colonel” (Season 1 finale) by Joe Weisberg, Joel Fields and Noah Emmerich

Three featurettes: “Executive Order 2579: Exposing the Americans,” “Perfecting the Art of Espoionage,” and “Ingenuity over Technology.”

A gag rell

Deleted scenes

Trailers

The Americans received critical acclaim during it’s first season as a tense, evocative period spy-thriller. Set around Philip and Elizabeth Jennings, a seemingly All-American couple in the suburbs of Washington D.C.–who are really sleeper agents: deep-cover Soviet spies, part of a much-rumored but never verified program of Soviet infiltrators trained from childhood to act, speak–essentially be–American.

Set against the tense world politics of the Cold War, the show is part spy-thriller, part high-style political period piece expose–but mostly it’s a show about marriages, and family, and the things people do to protect them.

The Americans: Season 1 is available from Amazon.com (it is also available for streaming via Amazon Prime) for $36.99. Season 2 premieres on F/X Networks on February 26th at 10 p.m