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Britain allowed filming in the Foreign Secretary’s office, a rare donation

Synopsis

In the midst of an international crisis, career diplomat Kate Wyler is thrust into a high-profile job for which she is ill-suited, with tectonic consequences for her marriage and political future. Producers convinced the American and British governments to allow them to use real-life locations as filming locations for the series, including the still-recent American Embassy (Nine Elms), which opened in 2018.

credit to any film or screen production, especially an American film

The only place available was Winfield House, the actual residence of the American ambassador. Although it is accurately described as occupying the largest residential area (11 hectares) in London outside of Buckingham Palace, the producers used a country house outside the city for filming.

Absolutely top notch production and acting

). The script is clever and interesting, engaging and well-paced.

The character development is quite strong and the players are not simple caricatures

Time and time again, the character seems one-dimensional at first, but then the story develops and they are actually much more complex than the first blush. My only complaint is that some of the inspired « romance »; the plots are so cheesy and out of place that they are disjointed and jarring.

Someone decided to splurge on a little soap opera, and it doesn’t help

Professional situations that suddenly turn into "I’m just a girl standing in front of a guy" seemingly out of nowhere.