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Spoilers follow for the first season ofThe Diplomat, which debuted April 20 on Netflix.
Watch out, Prime Video, Netflix is coming for your deep-state mantle.
Here are four thingsThe Diplomatdoes that I never want to see on TV again.
1.The Iran scapegoat
1.
Islamophobiaexists in the U.S.too!
Plus,The Diplomatbasically copies this entire plot fromThe Terminal List.
IfThe Diplomatisnt even going to be creative in its xenophobia, whats the point?
2.Using brown peoples pain for the character development of others
2.
They believed in America, and whats wrong with that?
(This is where Cahns time onThe West Wingfeels most obvious.)
It makes her feel like everyone else who dumped … every democracy-oriented Afghan throughout time.
Uh, maybe start byactually calling backthe woman you abandoned in a war-torn country?
3.The girlbossery
3.
Kate is hyped as an intelligent, no-bullshit reader of people and rooms.
), or office niceties (This generation of women apologize for everything.
Gloria Steinem must be rolling in her grave.).
(What advice do I have for little girls?
she scoffs when pitched the idea of aVogueprofile.)
4.Rory Kinnear as the bad guy
4.
Perhaps Rory Kinnear is a lovely person in real life, but in TV and film?
This guys characters are theworst.
Kinnears a great actor, and every time he shows up onscreen I get a stomachache.
