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Created by
  
George Nolfi

Country of origin
  
United States

No. of seasons
  
1

Final episode date
  
30 April 2015

Genre
  
Drama

7.2/10
IMDb

47%
Rotten Tomatoes

Based on
  
The Gordin Cell

Original language(s)
  
English

First episode date
  
5 February 2015

Network
  
NBC

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Starring
  
Hope Davis Scott Cohen Gavin Stenhouse Margarita Levieva Morgan Spector Alexandra Peters Kenneth Choi

Executive producers
  
George Nolfi, Avi Nir, Ron Leshem

Similar
  
Homeland, The Americans, Hostages, American Odyssey, State of Affairs

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Allegiance is an American adaptation of the Israeli spy drama series The Gordin Cell. The series premiered on February 5, 2015, on NBC.

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On March 6, 2015, NBC canceled the series after five low rated episodes. On March 12, 2015, NBC confirmed that the series would move online, and a new episode premiered in the U.S. via Hulu and NBC.com. The final episode of the series was released on April 30, 2015.

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Main

  • Hope Davis as Katya O'Connor, a retired Russian intelligence operative. Her father was a KGB general who forcibly recruited her when she was 17 years old.
  • Scott Cohen as Mark O'Connor, an American-born businessman who was recruited by Katya to spy for Russia.
  • Gavin Stenhouse as Alex O'Connor, a gifted CIA analyst who is assigned to a joint FBI-CIA investigation into an SVR plot to destroy critical infrastructure within the United States. Until episode 4, he had no idea about his parents' and sister's spying. In episode 5, it is mentioned that he graduated from Princeton University with both a bachelor's and master's degree in three years.
  • Margarita Levieva as Natalie O'Connor, eldest daughter of the O'Connor family. She is also an SVR spy and was recruited at age 20. She is dating Victor Dobrynin, her family's SVR handler.
  • Morgan Spector as Victor Dobrynin, an SVR operative assigned to be Katya and Mark's handler when they are both reactivated. He is dating Natalie O'Connor.
  • Alexandra Peters as Sarah O'Connor, youngest daughter of the O'Connor family.
  • Kenneth Choi as Sam Luttrell, CIA Station Chief of New York.

    • Recurring

  • Robert John Burke as Special Agent Brock, the FBI agent-in-charge of the joint FBI–CIA investigation.
  • Floriana Lima as Special Agent Michelle Prado, an FBI agent who is partnered with Alex O'Connor on the joint FBI–CIA investigation.
  • Fred Dalton Thompson as the Director of the FBI.
  • Diane Farr as Elizabeth Simpson U.S. Dept of Transportation, pipeline and hazardous materials safety administration.
  • Giancarlo Esposito as Oscar Christoph / Marcus Bolivar / John Phillips.

    • Production

    On January 10, 2014, NBC ordered the series to pilot under a different title Coercion.

    On February 14, 2014, Gavin Stenhouse was cast as a lead role. Hope Davis and Margarita Levieva were cast as female lead roles on February 24, 2014. The pilot was later ordered to a 13-episode series to premiere mid-season under the final title Allegiance on May 6, 2014. On December 12, 2014, NBC announced that the series would premiere on February 5, 2015 following The Blacklist as a part of the "All-New NBC Thursday" and replacing Parenthood.

    Filming on the series finale ended on March 15, 2015.

    Critical response

    The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports a 47% approval rating with an average rating of 5.6/10 based on 32 reviews by critics, but an 87% audience score with an average rating of 4.4/5 based on 111 user ratings. Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 57 out of 100 based on 28 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".

    International broadcast

    The series premiered in Australia on June 30, 2015 on SoHo.

    References

    Allegiance (TV series) Wikipedia
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