Dreadnought
- Episode aired Oct 31, 2024
- TV-MA
- 52m
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8.8/10
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Kate puts her best foot forward after pillow talk with Hal forces her to face hard truths, and Vice President Penn offers a blunt lesson in geopolitics.Kate puts her best foot forward after pillow talk with Hal forces her to face hard truths, and Vice President Penn offers a blunt lesson in geopolitics.Kate puts her best foot forward after pillow talk with Hal forces her to face hard truths, and Vice President Penn offers a blunt lesson in geopolitics.
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- GoofsThe Vice President says that all of the UK's nuclear weapons are stored in one place--a fictitious naval base called Creegan. In fact, at least four different locations in the UK store its nuclear warheads.
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I posted a review in IMDb of the first series of The Diplomat 18 months ago and suggested the whole gang of them were trying a little too hard, especially when pretty much everyone felt it necessary to drop the F-bomb every few minutes. In brief, I was underwhelmed and gave it a 5/10.
Strictly, 5/10 is 'average' - by definition - but here on IMDb I suspect average would be 6/10 and that 5 more than hinted at 'must try harder'.
Well, I finished watching the second series last night and am happy to report that I was not the only one to suggest there was room for improvement because improvement there has been, all round, and then some.
It's not quite as frenetic as it came across in the first series, a tendency betrayed by all that incessant 'my, aren't we so modern' F-bombing.
Yes, there are still F-bombs along the way, but now they seem - as odd as it might sound - 'relevant'. Folk F-bomb in the second series in the way ordinary folk F-bomb, though probably mainly in private.
I also detect less freneticism in the plotting. I've previously seen the US version of House of Cards - excellent for the first three or four series - and I've heard about The West Wing, and if you like that kind of pseudo-sophisticated political intrigue, and I do, this second series is far more up-to-scratch than Version One, i.e. The first series.
It's as though the various characters, from Keri Russell's US ambassador in Britain, her canny ex-ambassador Rufus Sewell - always best value in my book whatever he does - and all the rest of the cast (can't be bothered to look up the names, but you know who you are) - have finally settled in and feel far more comfortable in their skins.
Being a Netflix series, production values are sky-high, but I must add that pertinently all the thesps, the director, the crew, the script and every other aspect do those production values proud. So stand easy, Netflix, all the moolah you sprayed on this one was worth it.
OK, the 'story' is superficially fantastical, but from the memoirs of politicos and the research by historians we know full well that 'the real thing' - the tooings and frooings of real politicos, their bed hopping, their betrayals, the horse-trading, the shifting alliances, the loyalties and the lying - is often equally as fantastical.
If, like me your were a tad disappointed by round one, don't give up: the second series redeems itself and I, for one, am looking forward to the third series.
In it, apparently, a distinct oddball billionaire who paints his face orange every morning, attempted to rig a national election and has been convicted of fraud and might well be a rapist makes it to the rule the roost in the White House and proceeds to ruin his nation's economy. Or something.
So if you can settle for that kind of make-believe, The Diplomat does the biz and - now, the second time round - does it rather well.
Strictly, 5/10 is 'average' - by definition - but here on IMDb I suspect average would be 6/10 and that 5 more than hinted at 'must try harder'.
Well, I finished watching the second series last night and am happy to report that I was not the only one to suggest there was room for improvement because improvement there has been, all round, and then some.
It's not quite as frenetic as it came across in the first series, a tendency betrayed by all that incessant 'my, aren't we so modern' F-bombing.
Yes, there are still F-bombs along the way, but now they seem - as odd as it might sound - 'relevant'. Folk F-bomb in the second series in the way ordinary folk F-bomb, though probably mainly in private.
I also detect less freneticism in the plotting. I've previously seen the US version of House of Cards - excellent for the first three or four series - and I've heard about The West Wing, and if you like that kind of pseudo-sophisticated political intrigue, and I do, this second series is far more up-to-scratch than Version One, i.e. The first series.
It's as though the various characters, from Keri Russell's US ambassador in Britain, her canny ex-ambassador Rufus Sewell - always best value in my book whatever he does - and all the rest of the cast (can't be bothered to look up the names, but you know who you are) - have finally settled in and feel far more comfortable in their skins.
Being a Netflix series, production values are sky-high, but I must add that pertinently all the thesps, the director, the crew, the script and every other aspect do those production values proud. So stand easy, Netflix, all the moolah you sprayed on this one was worth it.
OK, the 'story' is superficially fantastical, but from the memoirs of politicos and the research by historians we know full well that 'the real thing' - the tooings and frooings of real politicos, their bed hopping, their betrayals, the horse-trading, the shifting alliances, the loyalties and the lying - is often equally as fantastical.
If, like me your were a tad disappointed by round one, don't give up: the second series redeems itself and I, for one, am looking forward to the third series.
In it, apparently, a distinct oddball billionaire who paints his face orange every morning, attempted to rig a national election and has been convicted of fraud and might well be a rapist makes it to the rule the roost in the White House and proceeds to ruin his nation's economy. Or something.
So if you can settle for that kind of make-believe, The Diplomat does the biz and - now, the second time round - does it rather well.
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