THE AMERICANS -- Pictured: (L-R) Keri Russell as Elizabeth Jennings, Matthew Rhys as Philip Jennings -- CR: Frank Ockenfels/FX
Take a cable TV show about spies, national security and paranoia and add a complicated male-female relationship. This description not only fits Showtime’s hit “Homeland”; it also applies to the best new midseason show, “The Americans,” on FX. Despite some uncanny similarities between the two …