You might look at some of the news items on Netflix over there.
Last night I watched the first two episodes of something promising on Amazon called The Citadel, good spy series.
I haven’t watched, The Diplomat. Rufus Sewell is a good actor and was great as the Black Prince in, “A Knights Tale”.
I watched the first two episodes of Citadel. Like it so far. I’m a Stanley Tucci fan
I liked Keri Russell in The Americans, but I don’t have Netflix, so I can’t see The Diplomat.
I’ll give The Citadel a try. Richard Madden is the lead in that and may be the favorite to be the next 007.
I have watched several episodes. While there is much to complain about with it’s liberal attacks, I am hooked and that is what n spite of knowing the ending. I need to see how they get there because it ain’t easy.
Aren’t most career diplomats traitors?
netflix is woke
no funding of woke
I watched the first episode of the Diplomat so far. I then watched an episode of the night angent and dang that is good! I prefer this much more.
Netflix has been dead to me since they associated with the Obamas.
Thanks for the warning...I will avoid that series.
The day that the Brits have an Afro-negro for Prime Minister will be the end of the world.
Not giving netflix my money to support wokism.
You might look at some of the news items on Netflix over there.
It’s certainly woke, but not as bad as many shows, Netflix or otherwise. I do think it’s a little funny that they portray the POTUS as a senile doddering fool, whose female VP is resigning over corruption. POTUS is played by Michael McKean, aka “Lenny” from Laverne and Shirley, who also played Saul’s brother “Chuck” in Better Call Saul.
The show kind of lost me when Keri Russells character had her husband smell her under arm and “private area” to determine if she needed a shower before a meeting. My wife concurred, we don’t need to keep watching beyond episode 1.
I found it unwatchable for the reasons you cite and more. I couldn’t stand the brattiness of the main character who stomped her feet about having to go to the UK instead of wherever it was in the Middle East she had been assigned to, all the way to the UK.
She acted like a petulant teenager, talking back to the president and being rude to the staff at the embassy even going so far as telling the woman she wouldn’t be caught dead in a tea length dress for the reception, however she DID have a burka packed for her ME assignment. This liberal hates western tradition which includes being expected to wear a fancy dress to a social event, but will grovel to men in the most backward civilization on earth and don a burka with no hesitation. Laughable.
I noticed it was written by a woman. That came through loud and clear in the script. And of course, the main character had to be the proverbial “strong woman” in a leadership position. She was anything but.
Just finished watching all the episodes of Diplomat. Yes, it definitely has a case of “wokeism”, but I still enjoyed it.
Also watched The Night Agent. Wokeism again, as the POTUS is a woman, but I enjoyed the action.
Also enjoyed on Netflix .... Bodyguard
I binged the whole thing. Found it rather enjoyable.
I was surprised by the not-so-subtle references to the ‘mentally challenged’ old male president and the ambitious female vice president.
I look forward to Season 2 — if/when it ever gets released.
Diversity where every incompetent person gets a shot at it and it works so good you fell safe for an 8:00 night walk in any large city.
I loved this series. Some of the best writing in years. There are a few nods to wokeness (lotsa top level people are black, female, or both). But the Pres is white male, the Brit PM is white male. Both are portrayed as self-centered, short-tempered. But the heroine, played by Kerri Russell, is terrific. She has MANY shortcomings, and admits to some. The real star is Rufus Sewell, her husband, whom she suspects as trying to use her trajectory to be veep as a means for himself to be SoS.
The humor is laugh out loud. And some of the woke is, well, actually the way some of these people behave. For ex., the Brit PM going off on the “barbaric” bloodthirsty Russkies-—but as the season ends there may be more to his positions than you think. One of the best shows I’ve watched in years.