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‘The Diplomat’ Creator Debora Cahn Breaks Down Season 2’s Prescient Plot & That Insane Cliffhanger: “It Looks Like We’re Stealing From The Headlines”


The Diplomat creator Debora Cahn spoke with Deadline about Season 2, from its prescient plot to the insane ending

Foreign tensions escalate even further in Season 2 of The Diplomat as Kate Wyler (Keri Russell) continues investigating the bombing of a British aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf. Kate and British Foreign Secretary Austin Dennison (David Gyasi) had begun to suspect that Prime Minister Nicol Trowbridge (Rory Kinnear) was behind both attacks, the first in an effort to quell Ireland’s independence movement and the second to silence Grove. She also discussed Season 2 more broadly in an earlier Q&A with Deadline, which also features a conversation between the stars of the Netflix series and Irish Ambassador Geraldine Byrne Nason that took place ahead of the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in April.

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