"The Diplomat" Season 3 Preview

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Fall TV Preview 2025: The Diplomat
Thursday, Oct. 16 (Netflix)


Season 2 of the Netflix political thriller left us dangling on a huge cliffhanger, with the president dying and Allison Janney’s VP Grace Penn in line to become commander-in-chief.

Season 3 will pick up right where we left off, showrunner Debora Cahn assures TVLine. “We always think we’re going to do time jumps on this show, and then we just never do them, because we’re in a situation that I want to see every second of. So it’s a direct pickup.”

Janney is joined this season by her "The West Wing" co-star Bradley Whitford, who plays Grace’s husband Todd Penn, and through their relationship, Season 3 explores “how another couple deals with the kind of professional limitations that this world puts on a marriage,” Cahn teases.




Kate, meanwhile, has to deal with the fallout of “more or less calling Grace a war criminal” last season.

Cahn notes: “The relationship, put simply, is in a very bad place.” But despite all that animosity, Kate’s husband, Hal, is still pushing for Kate to get that VP slot this season.

Cahn reveals: “This scenario does not slow him down at all.”



BONUS SPOILER!:

After airing just six episodes in Season 2, "The Diplomat" is thankfully back to eight episodes this season, and “it creates a little bit more breathing room” to explore personal relationships.

“It’s nice to be able to bring the narrative to a point where things have settled enough for people to just step back, take a breath and try to figure out where they are in the world and in their own lives,” Cahn says.

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