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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Au contraire! These are all the things I like about her character. She’s supposed to be serious and dedicated and sincere. And come on, wouldn’t you be a little put out if you thought you were going to do one job and then got told to do a totally different one?[/quote]

You can be serious and still wash your hair and not fall apart when you need to put on a show in order to do your job.

[b]As someone who works in Washington, I just don’t find this character believable. Even the most serious women wear lipstick. [/b]

Separately, I can’t help but feel like The Night Agent had better casting than this for the supporting characters. Rufus and Keri are terrific, but everyone else seems less interesting than their counterparts in shows like The Night Agent, The Recruit, etc. Weird. [/quote]

Plenty of "serious" (and successful) women don't wear makeup, stylish hair or clothes, etc.[/quote]

Show me a frumpy ambassador without makeup. I’ll wait.

Plus, fat chance anyone is swooning over Kate with her clean face and greasy unbrushed hair and sweaty pits that have become a bizarre plot line. [/quote]

Because the vast majority of ambassadors are wealthy donors, not boots-on-the-ground policy wonks. The whole point is that she is different from the norm.[/quote]

And she's absolutely younger and hotter than most, even with unbrushed hair etc.[/quote]

That's my quibble here, but I am trying to overlook it. I realize London usually goes to a donor, but the DCM would absolutely be a career officer and a senior one to boot. The CIA Station chief would be a very senior person and not the lady running around with rumpled shirts.

Even Ambassador to Kabul would be someone polished and able to make speeches and public appearances. Two suits and two burkas wouldn't cut in in Kabul (and American women didn't usually wear burkas either). All of these people would have had experience leading large offices in their respective organizations and doing things like meeting with high-ranking counterparts in foreign governments. the military, Congress, etc.

But it's TV and it's enjoyable. Rufus Sewell is s gem in this. This isn't my favorite role of Keri Russel's, but I like her as an actress and I do like the way they portray her as an on the spot problem solver and with an inherent understanding of protocol. She was really good in the Secretary of State call and then proclaiming that you can't fire Cinderella.[/quote]

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