I’m behind the times, so I just started watching 2023’s The Diplomat, a fun Netflix show from some West Wing alums about the new ambassador to Britain (played with eternal vexation by Keri Russell) and her infuriatingly awesome/awesomely infuriating husband (played with delicious aplomb by Rufus Sewell). In the current political environment, it stretches credulity a bit that all of these people are so earnest and competent, but that’s why it’s fiction, right?

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