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Eight episodes of a series created and co-written by a former screenwriter ofin the white house and of Homelandplayed by the sweet Felicity Porter who was on television (Happiness) then the fierce Elizabeth Jennings (the Americans), were enough, in the spring of 2023, to reconcile us with the original Netflix production. This shows the expectations that weigh on this second season of The diplomatposted on the Internet a few days before the US presidential election; The moment is not insignificant, because it is largely about a woman’s ability to perform the functions for which she is asked.
After the car bomb attack that nearly claimed the life of her soon-to-be ex-husband, Hal (Rufus Sewell), American ambassador Kate Wyler (Keri Russell) suspects the British Prime Minister (Rory Kinnear) of involvement in both. This explosion and the one that affected, in the previous season, a Crown aircraft carrier, precipitating Kate’s parachute launch in London when she was preparing to settle in Kabul.
The brutal methods of the Downing Street presenter, who found and executed in record time the Russian mercenary responsible for the torpedoing of the aircraft carrier, seem to prove him right. Unless the source of these revelations, a shadowy advisor with murky motivations, is manipulated. It remains to be seen who The diplomatone revelation always leads to another.
Latent confrontation
Since its first season, the series has been based on an ambiguity: if Kate Wyler was sent to London, it was not so much for her deep knowledge of Middle East issues as to test her ability to replace the threatened vice president in office. for a scandal. whose content we really do not know. The emergence of this vice president in the fifth episode, disguised as Allison Janney (a great idea to entrust the role to someone who was, for seven years, President Bartlet’s collaborator), frees the series from a tedious beginning. season, entangled in its own complexity, and returns it to the tranquility of its beginnings.
The hidden confrontation that occurs between the two women gives the season a second wind and an energy that makes us forget the implausibilities and the random rhythm of its beginnings, without fully forgiving Debora Cahn and her scriptwriters for having eliminated almost everything. sexual and romantic tension. of the story, depriving the series of the charm and humor that made it the heir to Hollywood remarriage comedies.
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