If you love a good spy story, no doubt Tuesday you’ll tune in for the latest in a gripping serial about Russian operatives using duplicity and “kompromat” to undermine American democracy.

But once you’re done watching the news, might I suggest “The Americans”?

Yeah, it’s a cheap joke. But if television’s best drama finally gets the buzz it deserves because evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 election served as viral marketing — well, as Comrade Trotsky once said, “The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.”

If you’re new to the series (the first four seasons are on Amazon Prime), it follows Elizabeth and Philip Jennings (Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys), married K.G.B. agents posing as travel agents in suburban Virginia during the Reagan era. While raising two American children, they’ve donned fabulous wigs, ferreted out military secrets and killed innocents in service of the fading Soviet empire — all to a well-curated classic-rock soundtrack.