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Lies, crutches, suffering… The formidable work created by Debora Cahn returns to Netflix with a shortened and much darker second season.
“Democracy is no longer fashionable.” Hal (Rufus Sewell, injured after the bomb explosion in the previous season) blurts out to Kate (Keri Russell, more confused and disheveled than last year) towards the end of the sixth episode of this shortened second season – after the Hollywood strike last year, it was necessary to reduce the deadlines and the duration. The punchline seems like nothing in the high-flying dialogues which make the genius of the Diplomat is pronounced during one of the many “pillow talks”, these confessions on the couple’s pillow making shattering revelations to each other in turn, which alternate with the more official “walk and talk” negotiations in asides, and the repeated crisis meetings. Lies and truths which hide other lies ad libitum form a mille-feuille where everyone is mistaken or allowed to be misled on the chessboard of geopolitical issues: who sank the ship and who planted the bomb, opening and closing the first season ? For what reason, from which state? Everyone gets lost, Kate first of all, her features drawn.
Season of getting back on your feet and on crutches
This season therefore evokes more pale gravity
