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I love a good cliffhanger, but it would be nice if Netflix would commit to a season two. I read that if there is a second season, we probably won't see it until the summer of 2024. That is a long time to hold one's breath. Ah, maybe they are just toying with us.

This is one of the best shows I've seen on TV in quite awhile. The writing is brilliant - fast and witty, reminiscent of Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell or Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. I found myself frequently rewinding so I could relish every word. Now I'm rewatching it as clearly I missed a lot the first time around.

The chemistry between Keri Russell and Rufus Sewell is incredible and their characters relationship is fascinating and unique. From my perspective, nothing about the story was predictable or formulaic. And of course the ending completely caught me off guard.

Eight episodes was much too short and they just flew by. Hopefully, a season two will be a bit longer, if of course there IS a season two. I highly recommend this show, but watch it when you can give it your full attention.

Edit to add: Monday Netflix announced that The Diplomat has been renewed for a second season. According to Variety, The Diplomat has taken the top spot on Netflix's weekly global Top 10 TV English list. I just rewatched the entire first season.

This show has great characters, excellent dialogue, and gripping plot lines. Think of it as "The West Wing" meets "James Bond." It has the snappy dialogue of The West Wing, with the intrigue of a James Bond TV series, if you can imagine that.

Rufus Sewell is a gem. I could watch him read the telephone book. (Remember when we had those? No?) He and Keri Russell have great on-screen chemistry. Keri Russell shows real range here. I haven't see her in anything since Felicity, but now I think I'll start watching The Americans. (I might also watch start watching The Man in the High Castle... !)

I hope I don't have to wait a full year for season 2! Talk about a doozy of a cliffhanger. Hard not to spoil it, but I hate spoilers, so all I can say is - watch this show!

Well written. Good to excellent acting. Adults talking to other adults. Drama, humor, pathos, bathos, entertainment for adults. No superheroes, just excellent characters portrayed by unusually gifted actors from the leads to the supporting characters. It is simply unbelievable to me that some reviewers find this series boring or repetitive. Listen to the dialogue - it is crisp, well thought out and totally entertaining. Keri Russell is totally believable as a jaded foreign service officer. What more can you want from an adult drama? I suspect with the writers' strike I'll have to wait much longer than usual for the denouement, but I will be there night ONE when the next season begins.

A total must-watch if you enjoy spy thrillers. The show follows the adventures of Elizabeth Jennings (Keri Russell), a US diplomat in various countries. The show has a captivating plot, full of twists and turns, and a superb cast that brings the characters to life. Russell and Sewell are brilliant but the rest of the cast are also given great characters with depth and complexity. The show also explores the themes of identity, trust and loyalty in a realistic and nuanced way. The Diplomat is a show that will keep you on the edge of your seat and make you think. I can't wait for season 2 if there is one.

Keri and Rufus make a Rukus wyler couple practicing diplomacy in a fragile UK so interesting that you are always on the edge of the seat. I never found Diplomacy so sexy and intriguing post "House of cards" . Unfortunately the "House of cards" went on a downward spiral and never was able to climb back in terms of intensity. I just hope this will not be the case with "The diplomat" . For the people of third world like me its a perfect recipe to see how first world diplomats react specially when you have seen the leaders doing stupid things in the name of religion or creating mass hysteria. Its intriguing and for me totally palatable,believable . I will start seeing every leader from the eyes of Debora Cahn . Sorry I can't UNDO .GREAT JOB...

Twice in this episode Kate decided to be a complete imbecile. First with Hal she completely loses it like a moron. She doesn't take time to ask questions and reflect. Then with the foreign minister she walks away like a petulant high school girl and makes him chase her down. Most of her antics seemed palatable and in line with a slightly high strung individual but these two were just way over the top.

While she can be a non standard Ambassador she still has to be somewhat believable. By in large I was impressed by the dialog and the character development. There is a depth to the conversations that let's the watcher in on the intricacies of the situations.

This series is allover the place. I don't think that the writers even know how they want to end it and just make it up as they go along. Ambassador Wyler is erratic and emotional. The only constant is that she wants to divorce her ex-ambassador husband, but doesn't. Almost all actors have been instructed by the director to end dialogues with a surprised or dismayed look of disbelief at what the other person just said, the camera shot lingering just that extra second. And the cliffhanger makes no sense at all and leaves you with nothing but a feeling you've wasted 8 hours of your life and need to search for a better series.

I was glad The Diplomat was renewed for a second season. I have been enjoying the show. However, the viewers had an expectation of a typical one season story arc, ending in resolution. Surely the writers could have come up with a new arc for season 2, instead of simply stretching it out longer. Are we to be dealing with this storyline for another eight episodes?

The dialogue is clever, the lead is one of the strongest female characters I've ever seen portrayed. The supporting cast is also excellent. I suppose I would point to "Slow Horses" for an example of the storytelling I wish The Diplomat would adopt.

Written by women for women, all the she/her characters are smarter and more resourceful than the men who need coaxing and prodding to perform. Males are shown as outright weak or stupid or various combinations of either. The Billie Chief of Staff is a frankly fantasized puppet master. Otherwise a decent political thriller, newbie ambassador with a penchant for black pant suits is thrown into the deep end and knows how to swim. Fairly good plot with latest real world elements thrown in, Ukraine and Iran. Michael McKean is good as a Biden-esque POTUS, Rufus Sewell bares all as an American house-hubby. The Brit actors are stolid and speechify, males need to be told and women perform in the background. Not really sure if this series passes the Bechdel Test though.

This was going great. Then it stopped. None of the story arcs resolved. Just stopped. Really unsatisfactory. Sure. It's true to life, but it's not true to dramatic conventions to leave every single plot line unresolved at the "end". I don't mind a cliff-hanger on one or two bits of plot, but nothing in this was resolved in episode 8.

I loved the characterisation and depiction of the marriage. I loved the Diplomat's messy hair and black suits. I loved the insight into contemporary politics on the international stage, which seemed very plausible. But this basic fault has led me to slash my star-rating.

In recent years, I think it would not be wrong to talk about a great Hollywood inability to produce or production constipation. Repetitive subjects, remakes, films which filled with visual effects where the content isn't very important, a western hypocrisy -on a high horse- style, films/series in which rich male producers/directors pretend to address feminist issues or in which they liberate female characters, etc.

I jumped straight to the end of the last episode without watching the last 4. From the first episode, I saw that the simpleminded pampered British boy was trying to do something like just to save his own a* Maybe that was what the firm/producers/writers of this serie, etc. Exactly wanted to create. The British screw up, the Americans always clean up. Another series full of cults and stereotypes.

We are so bored with this invincible, intelligent, sensible, democracy-loving America, which has learnt the lessons of the past, but cannot give anything to its poor people.