Let us toast, comrades! FX has rewarded its creatively fierce if ratings-challenged drama “The Americans” with a fourth season, on the heels of airing the third’s final quartet of episodes. The season finale is scheduled to air at 10pm Wednesday, April 22.

This season’s of the ’80s-era spy drama has been particularly electric, what with Soviet intelligence agents Philip (Matthew Rhys) and Elizabeth Jennings (Keri Russell) maintaining their mission to subvert America’s efforts to derail the Motherland’s interests, all while living in deep cover as a normal American couple and pushing back against the KGB’s desires to indoctrinate their daughter Paige (Holly Taylor) into the family trade.

Yet fewer people have been tuning in this season compare to season two, according to FX’s press release, with season three taking a 4 percent dip in year over year averages in total viewers and nudging downward by 6 percent in the 18-49 demographic. But FX seems to be pleased by the numbers in delayed viewing, boasting of its 147 percent lift between live numbers and Live + 7, which factors in DVR usage.

Season four of “The Americans” will air in 2016. The next new episode airs 10pm Wednesday on FX.