Finished Season 2 of The Diplomat. Now stuck with the finale cliff-hanger (more holy shit, now what moment) until next Fall at least.
Fun show. My husband is a big West Wing nerd and he frequently compared the two shows (though this one is focused on State Department doings).
Dug this up out of curiosity:
‘I don’t recall so many attractive people’: experts reveal what The Diplomat gets right – and wrong
Foreign affairs staff seem mostly to be enjoying the new Netflix show starring Keri Russell, despite the many liberties it takes
Foreign affairs staff seem mostly to be enjoying the new Netflix show starring Keri Russell, despite the many liberties it takes
amp.theguardian.com
“… But for all the dramatic licence taken with the plot and characters,
The Diplomat’s producers made sure they got at least some of the details absolutely right.
They persuaded the US and UK to allow them to film on government locations. Several scenes were shot inside the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office in Westminster, including the foreign secretary’s office itself, a rarely granted privilege.
They also got to film inside the knobbly, modernist cube of the new
American embassy in Nine Elmsby the Thames.
But the film-makers were not allowed into the sprawling residence of Winfield House on the edge of Regent’s Park, sold to the US government by the Woolworth heiress, Barbara Hutton, for one dollar in 1946, and where the current ambassador,
Jane Hartley, lives.
In its place, they filmed at the stately home at Wrotham Park, in Hertfordshire, and used special effects to make it look as though the BT tower was looming over the trees as it does over Winfield House. ..”
