Keri Russell is a tightly wound marvel on ‘The Diplomat,’ all while still projecting an air of worldly competence. Read our full review:
, a near-perfect convergence of workplace walk-and-talk graveness and only-on-TV relationship entanglements. Cahn synthesizes all her skills into a compelling knot foras Kate Wyler, a dogged American state department strategist who typically navigates difficult war zones but, through a trick of post-terrorist-attack politics, is installed as the new U.S. Ambassador to the U.K.
The season is essentially about Kate finding herself in a relatively uninteresting place at a decidedly interesting time. A British aircraft carrier has been bombed at sea, by bad actors unknown. The world suspects Iran, but Kate and her cohort aren’t so sure. Can Kate hold off the aggressions of an ineffectual British Prime Minister in order to stop her own country from entering yet another pointless and ruinous war? That is the not-at-all unserious question of the series.
Would an affair with Dennison really be an infidelity? Who’s to say. Kate and Hal are maybe divorcing, maybe not. They’re useful to each other’s careers, or disastrous for them.enjoys veering this way and that as its romantic plots bounce along, never quite letting us forget that these decidedly domestic antics are all set against the backdrop of potential global calamity.
Maybe that is Cahn’s cleverly made, and slightly despairing, point: that so much of politics is a game pettily played by mercurial egotists with too much power. All the hijinks stand in stark contrast to their dire implications. The show is fun, with its torrents of wordplay and snarky point making, but maybe it shouldn’t be. Cahn does, on rare occasion, force us to briefly sober up and think about the world outside these well-appointed if stuffy rooms.
Russell is a tightly wound marvel in the role, grooving on the offbeat writing and wild emotional swings. It’s a nice change, seeing an actor who’s often stern and cool and collected in a more frayed and frazzled mode—while still projecting an air of worldly competence. She delivers curse words beautifully, deftly hitting each emphatic “fuck” of a sentence. Russell is clearly stoked by the material, the way it meanders and whizzes at once. She’s having a good time, and thus so do we.
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