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This week’s Watchlist feels like a study in emotional range. On one end, there’s Haq, quiet, heavy, and the kind of film that asks you to sit still and really listen. On the other, there’s The Diplomat Season 3, which throws subtlety out the window and replaces it with rapid-fire dialogue, geopolitical chaos, and Keri Russell stress-walking through international crises in a power suit. One is rooted in lived injustice, the other thrives on wildly implausible political theatre, and somehow, both are gripping in completely different ways. If your viewing mood swings between “I need something that matters” and “I just want smart chaos,” this one’s for you.

Haq (2025)

Platform: Netflix
Episodes: Just the one (Film)
Vibe check: Quietly devastating, restrained, and emotionally heavy without being loud about it
Watch it if you like: Based-on-real-events films, courtroom dramas, or women-centred stories that don’t rely on spectacle
Watch with: Emotional energy, a clear head, and the understanding that this is not background viewing

Haq is not the kind of film you casually stumble into. It asks for your attention, and once you give it that, it doesn’t let go easily. Set in 1980s India, it follows Shazia Bano, whose life unravels when her husband abandons her and their children after marrying again. When he stops paying maintenance, Shazia does something that feels both ordinary and radical: she goes to court. His response is to pronounce triple talaq, hoping that will neatly close the chapter. Instead, it opens up a fight that quickly grows bigger than either of them.

What struck me most about Haq is how calm it stays while dealing with something so volatile. There are no big speeches designed to go viral, no swelling background score telling you how to feel. The film stays grounded in Shazia’s reality: the small humiliations, the financial fear, the quiet stubbornness it takes to keep showing up when everyone expects you to back down. Yami Gautam plays her with restraint and dignity, and that choice makes the performance land harder. Emraan Hashmi, too, resists playing Abbas as a moustache-twirling villain, which somehow makes his entitlement feel more unsettling.

As the case moves through the courts, it becomes clear that this isn’t just about one marriage or one woman. It’s about faith, law, patriarchy, and the uncomfortable space where personal suffering becomes public debate. Haq never pretends to have easy answers, and it doesn’t try to wrap things up neatly. It just lays everything out and lets it sit with you. This isn’t a film you enjoy in the traditional sense. But it’s the kind you keep thinking about later, which, honestly, feels like the point.

The Diplomat – Season 3

Platform: Netflix
Episodes: 8
Vibe Check: High-stakes chaos, elite politics, and stress in a perfectly tailored suit
Watch it if you like: Political thrillers that feel smart but slightly unhinged, women running the room while men spiral, or shows that demand you suspend disbelief and reward you for it
Watch With: Something strong, something warm, and the acceptance that you will not Google whether any of this is realistic

The Diplomat Season 3 picks up exactly where it left us: tense, frantic, and already asking you to trust it blindly. And honestly? You should. This show has always lived in that sweet spot between “wow, this is clever” and “absolutely none of this would ever happen,” and Season 3 leans into that balance hard. If you start questioning logistics, timelines, or how one woman can physically be in this many rooms at once, the whole thing collapses. But if you treat it like what it really is - a spicy geopolitical soap - it’s ridiculously good.

Keri Russell remains the reason this show works. Her Kate Wyler is perpetually stressed, morally burdened, and operating on four hours of sleep, and Russell plays all of it at once without missing a beat. Season 3 cranks the pressure up even further, throwing her into a political arrangement so convoluted that even the characters admit it sounds insane. Watching her pinball between countries, power centres, and impossible expectations is exhausting in the best way. The performances around her stay sharp too, especially as the show deepens the dynamics between marriages, alliances, and egos that have been quietly building since Season 1.

Is it ludicrous? Absolutely. Are there moments where you’ll mutter - this cannot be how government works? Constantly. But that’s part of the fun. The Diplomat doesn’t want to be a documentary; it wants to keep you on edge, entertained, and slightly breathless. And it succeeds. By the time the season hurtles toward its conclusion, you’re less concerned with plausibility and more invested in the tension, the relationships, and the sheer audacity of it all. Keep your disbelief parked at the door, and Season 3 is a nail-biting, wildly watchable ride.