11/10
Britain allowed filming in the Foreign Secretary’s office, a rare honor for any film or film production, especially for American
Story
In the midst of an international crisis, Kate Wyler, a career diplomat, is thrust into a high-profile job for which she is ill-suited, with tectonic consequences for her marriage and her political future. The British government to allow them to use real-world settings as filming locations for the series, including the still recent US embassy (at Nine Elms), which opened in 2018.
Presented at the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards (2024) )
The only place unavailable was Winfield House, the actual residence of the American ambassador. Although it is accurately described as occupying the largest residential plot (11 acres) in London other than Buckingham Palace, the producers used a country house outside the city for filming purposes.
Absolutely top-notch production and acting
The script is clever and interesting, engaging and well paced. The character development is quite robust and the players are not simple caricatures.
Professional situations that suddenly devolve into "I’m just a girl standing in front of a boy" seemingly out of nowhere
Time and time again, a character seems one-dimensional at first, but then the story unfolds and is actually much more complex than first blush. My only complaint is that some of the “novels” thrown in; the storylines are so clumsy and out of place, they are disjointed and distracting.