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The Diplomat Is Testing the Limits of My Feminism Again
Season two ends in a catfight cliffhanger and a Margaret Thatcher namedrop. Bleak.
The series centers Wyler, who is described as having decades of diplomatic experience around the world, particularly in the Middle East, owing in part to her husband Hal (Rufus Sewell) serving as the American ambassador to Lebanon. It’s exhausting, though, when Wyler’s most passionate outburst is about how much it will cost to serve lobster rolls at a July 4 celebration, instead of the absurdity of Americans and Brits colluding to cover up a false-flag attack that killed dozens of people from both countries. When Wyler capitulates to Penn once more midway through the finale, agreeing with the VP that the only way to avoid a potential nuclear conflict was this convoluted scheme involving terror attacks to undermine Scotland’s self-determination efforts (“She should stay.
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