Although it was released at a time when the threat of nuclear war between the U.S. (Indeed, that’s exactly how it was used in The West Wing’s “Two Cathedrals,” which found President Jed Bartlet facing storms both literal and metaphorical with a smile on his face.) But The Americans’ home stretch was a tribute to the power, and sometimes the frustration, of taking it slow, letting conflicts simmer like the unresolved organ chords and thundering rumbles that fade in on the soundtrack as Philip, Elizabeth, and Paige face what is left of the rest of their lives. Dire Straits’ song, originally released on the album of the same name in 1985, is an elegiac slow burn, of the kind you might expect to close an episode rather than carry its middle section.