Episode notes
“The question of who's good and who's bad is always front of mind for me because my basic goal is to get to the place where no one is good or bad; everybody is in an unspeakably complicated situation. From the very beginning of the series, this event happens. We believe that it was perpetrated by Iran. Fairly quickly, we learn through the relationships that have been built over time between our heroes, Kate and Hal, and people in other countries that they’ve negotiated with that the assumptions we're making are completely incorrect. In fact, the people we assume have some sort of malintent toward us are being falsely accused. Someone else is playing on the stereotypes we have of those people in order to send us off in the wrong direction.
I feel very fortunate that the medium I’m in is television, which is a very long form of storytelling. ...
Keywords
Diplomacy, Politics, Debora Cahn, Netflix, The Diplomat, Keri Russell, Rufus Sewell, Homeland, Grey's Anatomy, The West Wing, Diplomatic Challenges, Women in Leadership, Political Thriller, US Presidential Election, British Government, Aaron Sorkin,