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Britain allowed filming inside the foreign secretary's office, a rarely bestowed honour for any film or screen production, especially an American one

Tale

In the midst of an international crisis, Kate Wyler, a career diplomat, lands in a high-profile job for which she is not suited, with tectonic implications for her marriage and her political future.. The producers convinced both the American & British governments to let them use real-life settings as filming locations for the series, including the still-recent American embassy (at Nine Elms) that opened in 2018.

Featured in The 75th Primetime Emmy Awards (2024)

The one unavailable location was Winfield House, the American ambassador's actual residence. Although it's accurately described as occupying the largest plot of residential land (11 acres) in London aside from Buckingham Palace, the producers used a country house outside the city for filming purposes..

Absolutely top tier production and acting throughout

The screenplay is clever and interesting, engaging and well-paced. Character development is pretty robust, and the players aren't simple caricatures.

Someone decided to soap opera the show up a bit and it does not improve the result

Again and again a character at first appears to be one-dimensional, but then the story develops and they actually are much more complex than the first blush.My only complaint is that some of the injected "romance" storylines are so ham-fisted and out of place they are disjointed and jarring. Professional situations that suddenly devolve into "I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy" seemingly out of nowhere.