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Netflix Series : The Diplomat
Self | April 29, 2023 | Captain Peter Blood

Posted on 04/29/2023 7:58:12 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood

A friend of mine suggested I try Netflix's new series; The Diplomat, with Kerri Russell, and Rufus Seawell.

It had an interesting plot and premise and tonight I decided to give it a try.

In the first 10 minutes of this show they had managed to find a way to include every Diversity Demographic possible, including what appeared to be a non-binary character.

Part of the plot concerns the President appointing a career Foreign Service official as the Ambassador to England, and she is female. As most know that plum job usually goes to a high political donor. In this case there is an international crisis and it is deemed necessary to have have someone with real experience in the job.

The next thing I found interesting was the Foreign Minister of England was black, not an impossibility of course, but it's more likely you would see someone of Indian or Middle Eastern descent given the demographics of a changing Britain. I may to need to check the makeup of Parliament to see what is it is these days.

It certainly has what you call a scent of Wokeness about it and I will have to at least watch episode 2 to see where it takes us.


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KEYWORDS: diplomat; kerrirussell; netflix; scent; smellslike; sniffingthetv; thediplomat; wokeness
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Anyone else out there that has watched at least one episode of this series?

Last night I watched the first two episodes of something promising on Amazon called The Citadel, good spy series.

1 posted on 04/29/2023 7:58:12 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Captain Peter Blood

I haven’t watched, The Diplomat. Rufus Sewell is a good actor and was great as the Black Prince in, “A Knights Tale”.


2 posted on 04/29/2023 8:04:03 PM PDT by broken_clock (Go Trump! Still praying.)
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To: Captain Peter Blood

I watched the first two episodes of Citadel. Like it so far. I’m a Stanley Tucci fan


3 posted on 04/29/2023 8:06:14 PM PDT by freebilly
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To: Captain Peter Blood

I liked Keri Russell in The Americans, but I don’t have Netflix, so I can’t see The Diplomat.

I’ll give The Citadel a try. Richard Madden is the lead in that and may be the favorite to be the next 007.


4 posted on 04/29/2023 8:14:36 PM PDT by FreedomForce
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To: Captain Peter Blood

I have watched several episodes. While there is much to complain about with it’s liberal attacks, I am hooked and that is what n spite of knowing the ending. I need to see how they get there because it ain’t easy.


5 posted on 04/29/2023 8:23:06 PM PDT by bioqubit (bioqubit: Educated Men Make Terrible Slaves - Aristotle)
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To: Captain Peter Blood

Aren’t most career diplomats traitors?


6 posted on 04/29/2023 8:24:17 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Captain Peter Blood

netflix is woke

no funding of woke


7 posted on 04/29/2023 8:45:09 PM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: Captain Peter Blood

I watched the first episode of the Diplomat so far. I then watched an episode of the night angent and dang that is good! I prefer this much more.


8 posted on 04/29/2023 8:46:52 PM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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We loved the Night Agent...I suspect it’s coming back for another season.


9 posted on 04/29/2023 9:02:18 PM PDT by Aria
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To: Captain Peter Blood

Netflix has been dead to me since they associated with the Obamas.


10 posted on 04/29/2023 9:30:24 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: Captain Peter Blood

Thanks for the warning...I will avoid that series.

The day that the Brits have an Afro-negro for Prime Minister will be the end of the world.


11 posted on 04/29/2023 9:37:26 PM PDT by miserare ( "Equity" is the new word for Communism.)
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To: joshua c

I have gone back and forth with them over the years. Have it for a bit then drop it.

At one point so much that they showed was not very good, but in the last several months I have had it I find a lot of really good stuff on there. Peaky Blinders is certainly not Woke and fun to watch. Have enjoyed some series that are actually not bad.

Just about every streaming service has its share of Woke stuff and I try to avoid it. So I skip around, subscribing and then dropping services while looking for other things of interest.


12 posted on 04/29/2023 9:38:02 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: miserare

That hasn’t happened yet, but probably will in some series. The Diplomat isn’t bad and and the plot is about war on Iran for an incident in the Persian Gulf.


13 posted on 04/29/2023 9:40:01 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Captain Peter Blood

Not giving netflix my money to support wokism.


14 posted on 04/29/2023 9:48:43 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: miserare

“The day that the Brits have an Afro-negro for Prime Minister will be the end of the world.”

Hey, the series lost me with the idea of a female Ambassador. How much nonsense can a guy take?


15 posted on 04/29/2023 10:11:54 PM PDT by Roadrunner383
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To: Captain Peter Blood
Netflix is so woke the folks at PDW are continually posting memes like this:

You might look at some of the news items on Netflix over there.

16 posted on 04/29/2023 10:57:37 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FreedomPoster
Or this:


17 posted on 04/29/2023 11:17:29 PM PDT by TheCipher ( RINO politicians in DC are the only reptiles in the world with no backbone)
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To: Captain Peter Blood

It’s certainly woke, but not as bad as many shows, Netflix or otherwise. I do think it’s a little funny that they portray the POTUS as a senile doddering fool, whose female VP is resigning over corruption. POTUS is played by Michael McKean, aka “Lenny” from Laverne and Shirley, who also played Saul’s brother “Chuck” in Better Call Saul.


18 posted on 04/29/2023 11:19:40 PM PDT by ETCM (“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
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To: Captain Peter Blood

The show kind of lost me when Keri Russells character had her husband smell her under arm and “private area” to determine if she needed a shower before a meeting. My wife concurred, we don’t need to keep watching beyond episode 1.


19 posted on 04/30/2023 12:52:20 AM PDT by DAC21
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To: Aria

“We loved the Night Agent...”

Yeah not to bad, creepy assassin couple finally got theirs.


20 posted on 04/30/2023 1:12:37 AM PDT by DAC21
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