Its creator, Debora Cahn, has worked on Homeland and The West Wing, but also on Grey’s Anatomy, whose DNA seems to inform The Diplomat’s tone-self-aware, smarter than it often seems, sometimes sillier than is strictly necessary. “The only tea-length garment I packed is a burka.”įor a show about geopolitical catastrophe, The Diplomat is surprisingly fun it’s snappily structured to careen its way through kidnappings and catastrophic photo ops and refrigerator raids with bizarrely high stakes. “I’m here for 30 funerals,” Kate replies. “You need to lean into the Cinderella thing,” he tells her as she balks at a photo shoot with British Vogue commemorating her new job.
Kate, who thinks she’s on her way to filling a diplomatic position in Afghanistan, is an unlikely show pony. When a British aircraft carrier is bombed off the coast of Iran and the White House reaches out about a vacant strategic position, she initially assumes it’s Hal they’re after. Kate Wyler, played by Keri Russell, is a sharp, diligent, charmingly slobby Foreign Service officer whose career has long come second to that of her charismatic husband, Hal (Rufus Sewell). The premise-an American diplomat is reluctantly conscripted during a crisis into the role of ambassador to the United Kingdom-borrows equally from fish-out-of-water comedies and intense political thrillers. The pleasure of The Diplomat, Netflix’s zippy new geopolitical drama, is how enticingly it ties together tropes and tricks from shows gone by, a TV bouquet that’s undeniably familiar and yet still seems fresh.
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