Gem of the Week

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While we fretted over Tazzer's medical condition, we decided to eat, and watch a movie, in Emily's room with him. Ultimately, we put aside his food (uneaten at that hour, but he'd just eaten half a can at the vet's three hours earlier) and his catbox (or, as we now call it, the "evidence room") and everybody piled in with us.

The choice was a BBC Films piece from 2009 called In the Loop. Picture Aaron Sorkin and John Finnemore having a foul-mouthed love child and this is more or less what you'd get.  In addition to a bunch of the usual Beeb suspects running about on their side of the pond, the US cast includes Mimi Kennedy as a Hillary Clinton-esque Madam Secretary of State, and James Gandolfini as a scrambled-egg-covered general who's trying to explain whether war is forseeable. Or inevitable. Or something.

In the end, they wind up working it all out in the bedroom- but not the way General Petraeus does it. This might be the single most brilliant scene I've seen in ages, and there's not a hint of salaciousness in it:

We didn't last until the very end and will finish tonight, but it's truly a keeper:)

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Added to the Netflix instant queue. Thanks!