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“So yes, the series has this incredible unlooked-for resonance, which, I mean, we should be grateful for,” he continued, “but we're certainly not grateful that Russia has become an invading nation.”

Both actors completely inhabit their absorbing roles, relishing the opportunity their exchanges provide and adding unlooked-for layers to a complicated human relationship.

More to the point, Brittany’s obstacles do not fade away even as she sheds pounds, and unlooked-for issues of intimacy, trust and belief in self come to the fore.

That unlooked-for combination of the heartening and heartbreak pushes “The Russian Five” to the very top.

But like many successful women, she brushes off her achievements, attributing her unlooked-for wins to luck.