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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

Scenario

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..

It is truly original – it hasn't been done before

As hard to believe as it might seem, this series is also 'fresh'. Midway through the first episode, something else of significance occurs, and somehow the makers of this drama managed to convince the people who make the trailers not to include it – or even allude to it.

The writing is deft; plot and dialogue flow together seamlessly

I am only midway through the second episode, but I can already tell you that this is not similar to other shows or books in the spy/suspense genre. It is also somewhat refreshing, because it isn't dominated by the sort of paranoia that bedevils Australians and others.

The acting is very, very credible