Is this Homeland meets Veep? The new HBO comedy is a caper set in the midst of a Pakistani coup d'etat. Jack Black stars as Alex Talbot, a low-level diplomat in the American Embassy in Islamabad.
As a military revolution against the country's newly elected president begins, Alex is out scoring weed with his reluctant driver Rafiq (Aasif Mandvi). A mob attacks their car, and the men are forced to flee on foot.
In Washington, Secretary of State Walter Larson (Tim Robbins) is interrupted from his afternoon dalliance with a prostitute to get to the White House situation room, where an indecisive American president (Esai Morales) is being urged to bomb Pakistani military targets before the new regime can sell off the country's nuclear weapons to terrorists.
Meanwhile, on a US Navy carrier in the Red Sea, a pair of hapless fighter pilots are scrambled in preparation to attack - but they've accidentally taken morphine instead of Xanax.
All hopes hinge now on Black's Alex, who, after he's captured and waterboarded, finds himself at the centre of the action.
