Here’s your first look and release date for Keri Russell in Netflix’s The Diplomat
Keri Russell and Rufus Sewell star in The Diplomat, coming to Netflix on April 20
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The Americans fandom is being fed well lately. There was one of 2023's major meme-able movies, Cocaine Bear, starring Keri Russell and Margot Martindale with a crucial cameo from Matthew Rhys. Then there’s Rhys’ HBO series Perry Mason, which returned this month for a second season. And now his on- and off-screen wife has lined up a new prestige drama of her own, The Diplomat, coming to Netflix on April 20.
Russell executive produces the new series alongside Janice Williams and Debora Cahn (Homeland, The West Wing) who created the show under an overall deal with the streamer. The Diplomat “is a high-stakes, contemporary political drama about the transcendence and torture of long-term relationships, between countries and people,” according to the series synopsis. Or, as Cahn put it in a press release, it’s “a show about a bunch of good people doing their best to keep their global and personal partnerships intact without killing each other.”
A first-look image released by Netflix (above) shows Russell in action as the titular diplomat Kate Wyler, the reluctant newly appointed ambassador to the United Kingdom. But she’s not the only diplomat in the mix. Per the synopsis, Kate, who was supposed to be placed in Afghanistan, “will have to diffuse international crises, forge strategic alliances in London, and adjust to her new place in the spotlight—all while trying to survive her marriage to fellow career diplomat and political star Hal Wyler (Rufus Sewell).” And while Kate is “great in a crisis zone,” reads the synopsis, “In a historic home… less so.”
The Diplomat also stars David Gyasi, Ali Ahn, Rory Kinnear, and Ato Essandoh, with guest stars Celia Imrie, Michael McKean, Nana Mensah, T’Nia Miller, Miguel Sandoval. The series will debut on Netflix in April with eight hour-long episodes in the first season.
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Per the synopsis, Kate, who was supposed to be placed in Afghanistan, “will have to diffuse defuse international crisesYou guys have GOT to stop using voice to text for these posts. At least I’m giving you credit for that being the problem here, not that you don’t actually know the difference between diffuse and defuse.
Diffusing an international crisis is probably not something you want. Better to keep it concentrated in one small place and not let it spread.
Turns out ”osmotic diplomacy” is a pre-existing term of art but NOT in international relations.
Maybe they meant a hair dryer attachment.
You guys have GOT to stop using voice to text for these postsThat. Would explain soooo much.
Still: nobody proofs their own before posting?
No, very people in my experience proof read their work, especially electronic communications. But I’m an old, who had a teacher for a mother. It got me into the habit of reviewing my writing before finalizing. You would think that in the age of spell check that at least the gross typos would be fixed, but too many people simply hit send. The stuff that I see on Nextdoor can be flat out unreadable.
Hoping this show really delivers the “Keri Russell’s pulsing forehead vein” content I need. Cocaine Bear was a letdown in that department.
Look, I’m going to watch this specifically because Keri Russell is so unambiguously excellent in the Americans that I’ll kind of see whatever she does forever. I’m a little leary about a show that’s partially about her having to maintenance a relationship with a dude who’s got more power than her. I’m just sort of over that dynamic, unless the story is either that he gets the fuck out of her way, or she leaves and crushes him. I can get behind either of those, I guess.
By the way, two new shows with the exact same name (one from UKTV, one from Netflix). This is the one from UKTV, and it’s set in Barcelona.This is Keri Russell in the Netflix one.Don’t watch the wrong one.
I’m doing a rewatch of ‘The Americans’ right now and it’s like a banquet of great acting. To the point where I’m usually only watching an episode at a time. I get to the end of a scene with Russell and Martindale and I’m like, “Oh no, I couldn’t possibly have another. I’m stuffed.”