Welcome back to One Thing. I'm David Rind. Hollywood and Washington, D.C., haven't always seen eye to eye.

Could a new creative partnership change that?

They can turn on CNN to watch or hear about the events of today, but movies, an television show can let you know who the people are and, you know, hopefully see them with a little bit more empathy.

Stick around.

One of my favorite new shows of the past few years is The Diplomat. It's on Netflix.

Blankov put together the attack, but the Kremlin did not hire him. I think the prime minister

did. The show stars Carrie Russell as the U.S. ambassador to the UK,

who, through a series of convoluted and increasingly implausible circumstances,

finds herself and her husband, played by Rufus Sewell,

drawn closer and closer to the American presidency.

Grace Penn is president.

The series was created by Deborah Kahn, who came up at Hollywood working on classic political shows like Homeland and the West Wing.

In fact, fan favorites Alison Janney and Bradley Whitford are in this one, too, although

their characters are much less idealistic this time around.

Hal, I'd like you to be my vice president.

And I think part of the reason I like the diplomat is because while the politics are not super

grounded in reality, it does bring in real life geopolitical storylines, the war in Ukraine,

Middle East Spycraft, etc.

Some of the stuff we cover on this podcast.

Now, you might be asking, David, you follow all of this serious news for work full time.

Why would you want to spend your few hours of relaxation watching more of it? Fair.

But I could pose the same question to much of America.

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