Keri Russell returns as Kate Wyler, the US Ambassador to the UK, in a show that ended with an explosion and a cliff-hanger. Did the car bomb that went off kill her husband, Hal (Rufus Sewell), whom she was very close to divorcing? Netflix itself has given up this spoiler: Hal lives, and Sewell is back along with David Gyasi as the UK Foreign Secretary, whose simmering personal chemistry with Kate is unmistakable and tantalising. Allison Janney guest stars as the US Vice President, who arrives in London worried that Kate is after her job. Kate never did want to be the Ambassador. This always engrossing show continues to explore the back-channel manoeuvres on both sides of the US-UK special relationship, smartly combining politics and melodrama. Kate has learned that the UK Prime Minister himself was behind an attack on a British aircraft carrier, and grapples with that knowledge while navigating her rocky marriage.
The Diplomat premieres 31 October on Netflix internationally
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