The Diplomat Season 2 First Look

Netflix has revealed the teaser trailer and photos for The Diplomat Season 2, which will premiere on the streaming service on October 31, 2024. The teaser gives a first look at Allison Janney as Vice President Grace Penn and answers one of the biggest questions fans had at the end of season one.

The call is coming from inside the house. A deadly explosion in the heart of London shatters US Ambassador Kate Wyler’s world (Keri Russell). Struggling to rebuild the lives that broke and the team that split apart, Kate’s worst fears unfold: The attack that brought her to the UK didn’t come from a rival nation; it came from inside the British government.

As Kate chases the truth, her only real ally is her almost ex-husband Hal Wyler (Rufus Sewell), who is very much alive and very much involved. She faces a fraught marriage, a complex dynamic with British Foreign Secretary Austin Dennison (David Gyasi), and a threatening visit from Vice President Grace Penn (Allison Janney).

Stately homes. State secrets. High treason. High tea. The Emmy-nominated series The Diplomat comes from creator, showrunner, and executive producer Debora Cahn. Janice Williams, Alex Graves, and Keri Russell serve as executive producers. The series also stars Ali Ahn, Rory Kinnear, and Ato Essandoh.

In the first season of The Diplomat, Kate Wyler is a seasoned foreign service officer more at home in a crisis zone than in an upper-crust atmosphere. She’s planning to take her next post in Afghanistan when the White House comes calling with a change of orders, sending her to London as the US ambassador to the United Kingdom.

It’s not the behind-the-scenes world she thrives in, but with war brewing on one continent and boiling over on another, her skills will still be called upon. Kate will have to defuse international crises, forge strategic alliances in London, and adjust to her new place in the spotlight — all while trying to survive her marriage to fellow career diplomat and charismatic political star Hal Wyler.

He’s negotiated the end of his share of wars, but sharing the spotlight with a wife who has long lurked in the shadows could be his most challenging mission yet. In this high-stakes political drama, the transcendence and torture of long-term relationships between countries and people take center stage.

“Season 1 ended with Kate’s (Keri Russell) realization that the attack on a British warship [that] brought her to the UK wasn’t the work of a hostile nation — it was the British prime minister,” Debora Cahn told Netflix previously. “Now she has to prove it. The US and the UK don’t spy on each other. In fact, they share all their intelligence. So, how do you investigate the PM? Who do you trust?”

There’s also the bomb that exploded in the Season 1 finale. “Kate’s colleagues and her almost-ex-husband (Rufus Sewell) are victims of a politically motivated attack in London that takes some lives and shatters the rest. The marriage she thought was over, the relationship she thought was beginning … all of it, in pieces.”

In The Diplomat Season 2, “everything we thought we knew about the Wylers changes, as does everything they think they know about each other,” adds Cahn. Also, “the VP thinks Kate’s after her job. She’s not entirely wrong. Kate thinks she understands the VP. She is mistaken.”