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 Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })A 2015 Political Black Comedy series on HBO, which will focus on a different international crisis each season. It focuses on three main sets of characters; a low level State Department officer played by Jack Black and his driver, the philandering US Secretary of State along with the presidential cabinet, and an Action Duo of two bumbling US Navy pilots.The first season focuses on a crisis in Pakistan, after it is taken over by a Military Coup. Low level State Department employee Alex Talbot must act as the US government's guy on the inside, as he is the only diplomat outside of the sealed US Embassy, whilst also dealing with his driver, Rafiq, and his family he has dragged into the problem. Meanwhile, Secretary of State Walter Larson must battle stateside to ensure a peaceful resolution, much to the chagrin of the Warhawk Secretary of Defense, who endeavors to use Ace Pilot Zeke and his partner to bomb Pakistani nuclear sites and potentially start World War III.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })The show was already renewed for a second season, but got cancelled anyway.
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 Ambiguous Syntax: Between the Director of the CIA and President Navarro in the pilot as a funny moment.
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 Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Raja's requests to overthrow Zaman: $200M in cash, a communications satellite, a nuclear submarine and a golf club membership in Augusta. Subverted when Larson finds this last request to be the craziest one. Ali later has the same thing. Except that he wants two giraffes so that he can show them off to his daughter. And for a drone strike on his car that was going to have its lease expired.
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 Attack Drone: The use of drones over Pakistan is one of the main qualms of the leader of the coup, but only because he believes they are a Zionist conspiracy to render Pakistani's infertile. Glenn accidentally shoots down an Indian Air Force drone whilst high on morphine pills Zeke accidentally gives him. This sparks international tensions even further.
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