Secure Da Bag
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This show is far better than I ever thought it would be.
The Diplomat - Netflix TV Show
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On the 2nd episode but it hasn't grabbed me yet
Neo. The Only. The One.
THE ONE
I might watch this weekend. Subbed.
I'm not interested in political dramas most of the time but now that I'm 4 eps in, I can't seem to drop it. It's legit.
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It held my interest for about 4 episodes. Really like Keri Russel, and I'm up enough on politics and State Department, CIA liasons, whatever to be interested, but it lurched between the romantic comedy and political thriller roughly, and both have elements of the entirely absurd.
The plot itself feels like it was taken from 1990's thrillers, James Bond's Tomorrow Never Dies, to name one, which undercuts the idea that it is serious.
Russell's performance too, gets more strained, and she just doubles down on the no nonsense type, which grates with the rom com stuff. One second they are at a funeral, and then we are in some kind of Jennifer Lopez 2002 romantic comedy, and then she's snarling at someone about the price of racially motivated violence, then she's having a kind of Gary /Grace Kelly Hepburn lovers fight in a garden, like out of Hitchcock's To Catch A Thief.
Probably they did this to appeal to a wide audience, which I understand, the kind that watches a lot of MSNBC, which is fine, but to me, it's refusal to commit (or excel) hinders it. The production is also mostly unconvincingly cheap.
The plot itself feels like it was taken from 1990's thrillers, James Bond's Tomorrow Never Dies, to name one, which undercuts the idea that it is serious.
Russell's performance too, gets more strained, and she just doubles down on the no nonsense type, which grates with the rom com stuff. One second they are at a funeral, and then we are in some kind of Jennifer Lopez 2002 romantic comedy, and then she's snarling at someone about the price of racially motivated violence, then she's having a kind of Gary /Grace Kelly Hepburn lovers fight in a garden, like out of Hitchcock's To Catch A Thief.
Probably they did this to appeal to a wide audience, which I understand, the kind that watches a lot of MSNBC, which is fine, but to me, it's refusal to commit (or excel) hinders it. The production is also mostly unconvincingly cheap.
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tried the first episode was bored
Secure Da Bag
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The stakes were a lot lower this season, at least, tonally.
They left far too much time between seasons that the impact of the ending of the first didn't really have the effect it should have. The fact they tried to parlay that emotional pull by using Ronnie (who was an extracurricular character, at best) made it fall even more flat. There's minimal tension between the characters like there was the first time around, and what I thought was an intriguing relationship between Kate and Dennison, they ended up doing absolutely nothing with. A lot of this season gets too stuck in the brooding and not in any of the light-espionage that originally gave it its flavor.
The whole matryoshka doll about the Scottish independence ruse was hard to suspend disbelief over too.
The performances of the UK PM and US VP were about the only redeeming things about this season.
They left far too much time between seasons that the impact of the ending of the first didn't really have the effect it should have. The fact they tried to parlay that emotional pull by using Ronnie (who was an extracurricular character, at best) made it fall even more flat. There's minimal tension between the characters like there was the first time around, and what I thought was an intriguing relationship between Kate and Dennison, they ended up doing absolutely nothing with. A lot of this season gets too stuck in the brooding and not in any of the light-espionage that originally gave it its flavor.
The whole matryoshka doll about the Scottish independence ruse was hard to suspend disbelief over too.
The performances of the UK PM and US VP were about the only redeeming things about this season.
Between the snitching and simping, it seems his character’s entire existence is to be the butt of the joke.Show is back
Stuart needs to get it together. Out here snitching
EDIT: Wow it's worse than I thought
detroitwalt
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6 eps is way too short.
The president dying of shock was just stupid IMO but season 3 will definitely be interesting with VP going from almost being dropped to sitting in the highest office. Will she be Kate’s enemy or offer her the VP slot?