The Diplomat

[Anonymous]

Wow. I am glad this poster does not see what I look like at the office (if you think her character looks like a drug addict!?)

[Anonymous]

Maybe but I don’t think we’ve been made to care enough about Ronnie for that death to be the big cliffhanger.

[Anonymous]

The producer worked on both Homeland and the West Wing. That tracks. This is not as good as either of those shows but reminiscent.

[Anonymous]

I think the MP was the target. He wanted to pass on to Hal that the PM was actually the one that hired Lenkov (sp?) which is why he wanted to meet with Hal. (No one official) But if the car bomb was to stop him, wasn't it his car? Wouldn't he have already delivered the information?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:An ambassador lying in public on a marble step in her slip?? That was ridiculous.

Ha! I thought the same thing. Totally unrealistic.

[Anonymous]

Still, I am enjoying the quirky marriage and unconventional woman/diplomat. I also like the mutiple smart and powerful roles that feature black actors. That is refreshing (and sadly, perhaps also somewhat unrealistic still??😟)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the MP was the target. He wanted to pass on to Hal that the PM was actually the one that hired Lenkov (sp?) which is why he wanted to meet with Hal. (No one official) But if the car bomb was to stop him, wasn't it his car? Wouldn't he have already delivered the information?

Just watched this ep this morning and wondered the same thing.

[Anonymous]

Have you seen Dangerous Beauty? If not, you need to. It preceded A Knight's Tale.

[Anonymous]

According to Netflix, it is the #2 show in the country right now!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:An ambassador lying in public on a marble step in her slip?? That was ridiculous.

YES. That was the shot that really drove home what an earlier PP said on this thread -- this show does not know what it wants to be. The tone is all over the place. While I completely understand and am usually fine with a story being escapist TV and not necessarily accurate (re: all the discussion above in this thread about what real ambassadors do and don't do, are and are not), the show doesn't seem to have a single vision behind it. Is it full-on a drama with a little humor? Is it a satire on how power politics works? Are we supposed to root for Kate over everyone and everything? (I can't really feel it's inspiring me to pull for her much.) It's just tonally blah, neither a committed satire nor a very engaging drama nor consistently amusing, to me, at least.

And the "lying on the steps in a slip, bare-legged" scene was just so clearly a case of :"We're telegraphing how I-don't-care she is, how desperate she is not to be a shallow fashion icon, how tired this briliant perso is of all this silliness!" But it just came off as dopey and grafted on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:According to Netflix, it is the #2 show in the country right now!

The #2 show that people are streaming on Netflix.

That's got nothing to do with whatever else people are watching on other platforms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The producer worked on both Homeland and the West Wing. That tracks. This is not as good as either of those shows but reminiscent.

The West Wing was practically a documentary compared to this. Not that I mind an escapist political/international intrigue series. This is fair, for what it is. But it only makes me want to ditch it and re-watch The West Wing.

[Anonymous]

Last week it was the #1 Netflix show. Basically whatever they release that week is the #1 show that week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:An ambassador lying in public on a marble step in her slip?? That was ridiculous.

YES. That was the shot that really drove home what an earlier PP said on this thread -- this show does not know what it wants to be. The tone is all over the place. While I completely understand and am usually fine with a story being escapist TV and not necessarily accurate (re: all the discussion above in this thread about what real ambassadors do and don't do, are and are not), the show doesn't seem to have a single vision behind it. Is it full-on a drama with a little humor? Is it a satire on how power politics works? Are we supposed to root for Kate over everyone and everything? (I can't really feel it's inspiring me to pull for her much.) It's just tonally blah, neither a committed satire nor a very engaging drama nor consistently amusing, to me, at least.

And the "lying on the steps in a slip, bare-legged" scene was just so clearly a case of :"We're telegraphing how I-don't-care she is, how desperate she is not to be a shallow fashion icon, how tired this briliant perso is of all this silliness!" But it just came off as dopey and grafted on.

+1

I’m a huge Keri Russell fan who finds this character annoying and almost unlikeable. I hope they make some adjustments next season.

[Anonymous]

Not exactly in public, as that was her residence. And in photoshoots, there is a level of en plein air undressing that happens. And it was a pretty shot.