The first thing you need to know about the U.S. State Department, if you ever want to work there, is that most of your job will be uncovering devious international conspiracies while surrounded by hot people who all personally know the president.
Or at least that’s what the showrunners of Netflix’s glitzy new political thriller The Diplomat would have you think.
The Diplomat follows Kate Wyler, played by Keri Russell, a hard-nosed, no-nonsense career foreign service officer abruptly tapped to be the U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom in the wake of a major international crisis. (Minor plot spoilers from here on.) She and a coterie of her embassy co-workers find themselves tasked with preventing a bumbling British prime minister from dragging the United States into a disastrous war in the Middle East based on a combination of faulty intelligence and political gamesmanship (a plot that should sound familiar, in an inverted sort of way).
And there’s an entire quasi-rom-com subplot with some -like vibes, with Wyler’s devilishly handsome and conniving soon-to-be-ex-husband, Hal (played by Rufus
