‘The Diplomat’ Renewed for Season 5 at Netflix
After that explosive Season 4 finale, The Diplomat will be back for a fifth season.
Netflix has renewed the Keri Russell- and Rufus Sewell-led political thriller for Season 5, two weeks after its Season 4 drop.
The fourth season, which heavily featured Allison Janney, who plays President Grace Penn and Bradley Whitford, who plays her husband Todd, opened its first week with 4.8M views, in line with ratings for its third season.
[Spoiler Alert] During the season, Russell’s Kate Wyler had to navigate her relationship with her husband, Sewell’s Vice President Hal Wyler, deal with President Penn and her husband and figure out how to manage the Fallout of an assassination attempt on the U.S. President on British soil, while also still handling the issue of a felled Russian warship.
Speaking to Deadline ahead of the season, Russell and Sewell joked about heading “somewhere very exotic” for Season 5. “Trouble in Fiji,