The ‘special relationship’ has always occupied a strange place in the British/US consciousness. It’s a complicated subject – see the recent meeting of Joe Biden and Rishi Sunak – with a lot of baggage; perfect material, in other words, for a new Netflix show about politics.
Our po-faced heroine is Kate Wyler, played here by The Americans’ Keri Russell with the kind of grimness that marks her out as a Very Serious Person. She’s been training her whole life to be America’s ambassador to the Middle East – except things don’t quite shake out that way.
