From the breathless opening scenes to the final jaw-dropping twist eight episodes later, where when someone says, “Nothing to worry about, right?” you’d better be plenty worried, the third season of The Diplomat is the very definition of a breakneck binge bonanza. It’s also the most sensationally entertaining political drama since The West Wing .

And that comparison was front of mind even before I saw Bradley Whitford appear as the “first gentleman” to the new, accidental U.S. president played with crisp authority by fellow West Wing alum and Emmy winner Allison Janney . (It doesn’t hurt that the show’s creator, Debora Cahn , is a Writers Guild of America-winning West Wing veteran herself.) The happy news: The relationship between President Grace Penn and her droll scientist hus

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