The Diplomat

The Diplomat boasts a 97% Rotten Tomatoes score for Season 3, and its debut attracted 42 million household views in its first week—Netflix's highest for an English-language drama premiere that year. Keri Russell delivers a riveting performance as a US Ambassador navigating international crises and a crumbling marriage, with a script that packs 3 major plot twists per episode, faster than the typical political thriller. This sophistication edges out Stranger Things in critical consensus among genre purists.