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The Diplomat Season 3 Lands on Netflix, With Season 4 Set to Film This Fall

Netflix set Season 4 to start production this fall, with Allison Janney and Bradley Whitford elevated to series regulars.

Overview

  • All eight episodes of Season 3 are now streaming on Netflix, continuing the series’ blend of intimate relationship drama and global-statecraft suspense.
  • This chapter explores a sweeping power reshuffle in Washington that reshapes Kate and Hal’s public partnership and private fault lines.
  • Creator Debora Cahn frames the season as “the split,” foregrounding status, autonomy and the erosion of a long marriage.
  • The narrative weaves present-day diplomacy with 2010 flashbacks, including a Baghdad origin story that recontextualizes the couple’s early dynamic.
  • The season closes on a cliffhanger that sets up broader geopolitical consequences, with Season 4 poised to pick up the fallout.