A no-nonsense foreign service officer is tapped for a high-profile post in Netflix’s new political thriller The Diplomat. The Americans star Keri Russell plays Kate Wyler, who is preparing for a new post in Afghanistan when she is unexpectedly named the ambassador to the U.K. Kate has to negotiate an increasingly complicated political situation while also keeping her ambitious husband Hal (Rufus Sewell), a fellow diplomat, in check.
Keri Russell in ‘The Diplomat’ | Courtesy of Netflix © 2023
Once you’ve binged all eight episodes of The Diplomat, check out these other shows, which also feature politics, intrigue, and complicated marriages.
‘The Americans’
Kate and Hal have a complicated marriage, but they have nothing on Philip (Matthew Rhys) and Elizabeth Jennings (Russell), a pair of deep-cover Russian spies posing as a typical couple in suburban Washington D.C. FX’s gripping, 1980s-set spy drama The Americans follows the Jennings as...
Keri Russell in ‘The Diplomat’ | Courtesy of Netflix © 2023
Once you’ve binged all eight episodes of The Diplomat, check out these other shows, which also feature politics, intrigue, and complicated marriages.
‘The Americans’
Kate and Hal have a complicated marriage, but they have nothing on Philip (Matthew Rhys) and Elizabeth Jennings (Russell), a pair of deep-cover Russian spies posing as a typical couple in suburban Washington D.C. FX’s gripping, 1980s-set spy drama The Americans follows the Jennings as...
- 4/28/2023
- by Megan Elliott
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Rob Kemp Jul 10, 2016
The Musketeers series 3 ups its game considerably with an exciting episode filled with great moments...
This review contains spoilers.
3.6 Death Of A Hero
Now this is more like it. After two largely disappointing weeks, Death Of A Hero catapults itself to be the clear best of the season to date. We have been promised a darker season and although we shouldn’t get caught in the usual trap of equating ‘being dark’ with an automatic stamp of quality (yes Arrow seasons 3 & 4 we’re looking at you!), the show was in desperate need of adding some peril and tension to what is at times a pedestrian adventure for the heroes. This week we finally got to see the Musketeers in something that reasonably equates to danger with some good old fashioned ‘they couldn’t have survived that’ thrown in for good measure. We also got some stand-out moments...
The Musketeers series 3 ups its game considerably with an exciting episode filled with great moments...
This review contains spoilers.
3.6 Death Of A Hero
Now this is more like it. After two largely disappointing weeks, Death Of A Hero catapults itself to be the clear best of the season to date. We have been promised a darker season and although we shouldn’t get caught in the usual trap of equating ‘being dark’ with an automatic stamp of quality (yes Arrow seasons 3 & 4 we’re looking at you!), the show was in desperate need of adding some peril and tension to what is at times a pedestrian adventure for the heroes. This week we finally got to see the Musketeers in something that reasonably equates to danger with some good old fashioned ‘they couldn’t have survived that’ thrown in for good measure. We also got some stand-out moments...
- 7/10/2016
- Den of Geek
Rob Kemp Jul 4, 2016
The Musketeers delivers a heist episode in this week's To Play The King...
This review contains spoilers.
3.5 To Play The King
If we can but hope that last week’s The Queen’s Diamonds was this season at its lowest, then at least To Play The King shows some improvement, but unfortunately is still some way short of the quality of those opening few episodes and the series as a whole.
Written by Ellen Taylor (who is credited with many, many Coronation Street episodes as well as other British staples like Casualty), the story has a solid central plot and one I don’t think we’ve seen in The Musketeers before – a good, old fashioned heist. Except, it’s not just that. With unfortunate echoes of last week’s overstuffed mess, To Play The King treads a similar path and fills the hour to its absolute max,...
The Musketeers delivers a heist episode in this week's To Play The King...
This review contains spoilers.
3.5 To Play The King
If we can but hope that last week’s The Queen’s Diamonds was this season at its lowest, then at least To Play The King shows some improvement, but unfortunately is still some way short of the quality of those opening few episodes and the series as a whole.
Written by Ellen Taylor (who is credited with many, many Coronation Street episodes as well as other British staples like Casualty), the story has a solid central plot and one I don’t think we’ve seen in The Musketeers before – a good, old fashioned heist. Except, it’s not just that. With unfortunate echoes of last week’s overstuffed mess, To Play The King treads a similar path and fills the hour to its absolute max,...
- 7/4/2016
- Den of Geek
House of Cards will air on UKTV's Drama from Saturday (July 12) - but the star of this four-part serial is not Kevin Spacey's ruthless Us official Frank Underwood, but rather Tory chief whip Francis Urquhart, played with charming malevolence by Ian Richardson.
Adapted by Andrew Davies - writer of Mr Selfridge, Pride and Prejudice and many more - from Michael Dobbs's original novel, the UK iteration of House of Cards was a smash hit on both sides of the Atlantic. Scoring BAFTA and Emmy wins in the early '90s, it went on to inspire the acclaimed Netflix series.
"I feel flattered that Netflix chose to reconstruct it," says Davies. "And I'm delighted that ours has been rediscovered, and that it's going to be shown again on Drama."
Francis vs. Frank
But how does the original House of Cards compare to its modern counterpart? Though in many ways a...
Adapted by Andrew Davies - writer of Mr Selfridge, Pride and Prejudice and many more - from Michael Dobbs's original novel, the UK iteration of House of Cards was a smash hit on both sides of the Atlantic. Scoring BAFTA and Emmy wins in the early '90s, it went on to inspire the acclaimed Netflix series.
"I feel flattered that Netflix chose to reconstruct it," says Davies. "And I'm delighted that ours has been rediscovered, and that it's going to be shown again on Drama."
Francis vs. Frank
But how does the original House of Cards compare to its modern counterpart? Though in many ways a...
- 7/7/2014
- Digital Spy
The news that there is to be an American remake of the BBC’s sublime political drama House of Cards would usually be met with a fairly solid thumping followed by a staunch refusal to watch the updated series, but there are a few reasons why this is not the case.
Two names immediately draw me in: Kevin Spacey and David Fincher, both of whom are spearheading the new adaptation of the mini series, which was first adapted from the Michael Dobbs novel by Andrew Davies and Dobbs for the BBC in 1990 and had Ian Richardson in the role that would define him, that of the serpentine government minister Francis Urquhart.
Dealing with duplicity and deception and the darkly comic political machination of the post-Thatcher era, it is an impeccable work, with the fourth wall caressing Urquhart talking directly to his audience, drawing them into the conspiracy. So while I hold this,...
Two names immediately draw me in: Kevin Spacey and David Fincher, both of whom are spearheading the new adaptation of the mini series, which was first adapted from the Michael Dobbs novel by Andrew Davies and Dobbs for the BBC in 1990 and had Ian Richardson in the role that would define him, that of the serpentine government minister Francis Urquhart.
Dealing with duplicity and deception and the darkly comic political machination of the post-Thatcher era, it is an impeccable work, with the fourth wall caressing Urquhart talking directly to his audience, drawing them into the conspiracy. So while I hold this,...
- 3/4/2011
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
He’s currently busy making Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara run through thousands of takes on The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in Sweden, but David Fincher has his eye on our TV screens. He’s involved with getting a Us version of acclaimed 1990s miniseries House of Cards up and running and Kevin Spacey (who was a producer on The Social Network) has jumped aboard to both act as executive producer and star as a scheming politician. House of Cards began life as Michael Dobbs’ novel, the first in a trilogy written by the former Conservative chief of staff and peppered with deep, dark observations about how politics here really works. Ian Richardson starred as chief whip Francis Urquhart (note those initials), a sinister, smart and backstabbing sort who will do anything to achieve his ambitions. Adapted for TV by Andrew Davies, it won a BAFTA for Richardson and scored an Emmy for Davies,...
- 3/4/2011
- EmpireOnline
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