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Story
In the midst of an international crisis, Kate Wyler, a career diplomat, is thrust into a high-profile job she’s ill-suited to, with tectonic consequences for her marriage and political future. Check out our list of extensions and cancellations. The producers convinced both the US and British governments to allow them to use real-life settings as filming locations for the series, including the still-recently opened American Embassy (Nine Elms), which opened in 2018.
Britain allowed filming in the Foreign Secretary’s office, a rare privilege
thanks to any film or screen production, especially an American one. One off-limits location was Winfield House, the actual residence of the US ambassador. Although it’s accurately described as the largest residence in London (11 acres) other than Buckingham Palace, the producers used a country house outside the city for filming.
Absolutely top-notch production and acting
). The script is smart and interesting, engaging and well-paced. The character development is pretty solid, and the players aren’t simple caricatures.
Someone decided to show soap operas, and it doesn’t improve the outcome
Every now and then a character seems one-dimensional at first, but then the story develops and they’re actually a lot more complex than the first blush suggests. My only complaint is that some of the “romance” storylines are so lame and inappropriate that they’re disjointed and unexciting. The professional situations that suddenly turn into “I’m just a girl standing in front of a boy” are like out of nowhere.