The Diplomat is definitely one of the (poche) great TV series that can be found in the vast catalog of Netflix, able to combine the family drama with the political thriller, with a lively and exciting rhythm. The initial idea was to tell this woman, Kate (Keri Russell) who finds himself making the American ambassador in London, in a complicated geopolitical context, while trying to carry out an equally complex marriage with an impulsive and politically sagacious man, Hal (Rufus Sewell) but totally to manage.
With the passing of the bets the scenario has gradually expanded, moving attention from the life of an ambassador to the international geopolitical scenario and widening the reflection on the matrimonial life of another couple of power, formed by President Penn and her husband Todd (the extraordinary Allison Janney and Bradely Whitford). The first 4 episodes of the fourth season that I had to preview, have confirmed this trend: The Diplomat has become more and more a choral series, almost an attempt to demonstrate the difficulty of a couple life in contexts of power.
The fourth season resumes exactly where we left the third, from that accomplice look between president and vice president, from that suspicion of Kate that the weapon had taken her by deceiving everyone. The feeling excluded from important decisions, she who so far had manipulated and controlled everyone, was the most difficult aspect to digest for Kate. And it is from here that you start in a first part of season that save for the always high rhythm and for the actors with a quartet of protagonists who are a perfect melody. The contour however begins to show signs of fatigue.
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It may seem absurd but if it had been a 13-18-episode TV series, perhaps with some episodes around the horizontal plot, The Diplomat would probably have touched perfection. Obviously it is a hypothetical game impossible to confirm, but what is missing is the depth, the ability to make sediment situations, all tablets in the rush to make them happen. Always retracing something new, something more compelling ends up shifting the asticella more and more up and overflowing the sense of the real and turning everything into a fiction too loaded.
The Diplomat remains an excellent and pleasant TV series, well-recited and with an interesting background writing especially in interpersonal dynamics and in the development of individual characters and relationships with others. But it should slow down, pull the brakes a bit, make fewer things happen on the international scene and breathe more, it would benefit the whole story.
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