SummaryCIA analyst Alex O'Connor (Gavin Stenhouse) learns his parents (Scott Cohen and Hope Davis) are Russian spies, who are tasked with planning a terrorist attack on the United States.
SummaryCIA analyst Alex O'Connor (Gavin Stenhouse) learns his parents (Scott Cohen and Hope Davis) are Russian spies, who are tasked with planning a terrorist attack on the United States.
The set-ups are disparate enough [from "The Americans"], and Allegiance's twisty allegiances, are promising enough not to dismiss the show out of hand.
Allegiance certainly won’t win many points for originality, but the episodes do clip along on a serialized basis, keeping the principals constantly scheming to stay one step ahead of the two sides between which they’re caught.
Allegiance, set in the present-day, is at attempt to be a thoughtful drama about the differences between loyalty to family and loyalty to country, but its atmosphere is as drab as an early John LeCarre novel, without the prickly dialogue or tricky plotting.... And: We lost Parenthood to this?