SPOILER ALERT: This review contains a plot detail from the Season 3 premiere of “ The Diplomat ,” now streaming on Netflix. There are no other spoilers about the rest of the season.

Season 3 of “The Diplomat” is the first installment of the Netflix political drama to come out since the 2024 presidential election, which means the series is now even more of an escapist fantasy than it already was. Watching Ambassador Kate Wyler ( Keri Russell ) stalk the halls of the United States embassy in London, earnestly working to satisfy Danish concerns over British oil drilling in the North Sea and gushing over bipartisan treaties as the key to domestic popularity, it’s hard not to think of Elon Musk’s minions laying waste to USAID or trade wars conducted via Truth Social. These pangs are

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