Diplomacy ranks high among Emmy voters, even if not so much in the current realm of American politics. The Diplomat has two Emmy nominations for 2025, and they’re big ones: best drama series and best lead actress in a drama for Keri Russell , who plays Kate Wyler, the U.S. ambassador to the U.K. Rufus Sewell plays her husband, Hal, a former ambassador now without a foreign service post. Debora Cahn, creator and showrunner of the Netflix series, discusses season two’s cliff-hanger ending and the importance of highlighting the work of civil servants.

The end of season two left a lot up in the air with the revelation that Vice President Grace Penn (Allison Janney) was behind the naval attack at the start of the series and the relationship she and Kate Wyler have now that Grace is presi

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