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As a "90s kid", the affair between then-President Bill Clinton and White House intern Monica Lewinsky was the first major political event I remember being cognizant of (no wonder my generation is a bit jaded when it comes to politics!). This "Impeachment" season of American Crime Story does a remarkable--if perhaps overly long--job of examining that event from a different lens.

Primarily, "Impeachment" focuses on Lewinsky (Beanie Feldstein) and her complicated relationship with co-worker turned traitor Linda Tripp (Sarah Paulson), between which the details of Monica's relationship with the Commander in Chief (Clive Owen) comes to light. Simultaneously, the effects of such liaisons produce ripple effects seen in such figures as Paula Jones (Annaleigh Ashford) & Hillary Clinton (Edie Falco), as well as catches the eye of individuals like Judge Kenneth Starr (Dan Bakkedahl), Matt Drudge (Billy Eichner), & Anne Coulter (Cobie Smoulders).

The "hook" of Impeachment is that it tells the story of the entire scandal from a very Lewinsky-centric--or female-centric, in general--point of view (Lewinsky herself being part of the production). This was obviously a far cry very the late-90s media coverage, in which Monica became the ultimate pariah almost immediately. I very much enjoyed this approach, as not only did it prevent Impeachment from being just a straight-ahead even biopic, but it also never felt preachy or over-bearing. More of a course-correction, of sorts, towards the nexus of reality.

As with anything produced by Ryan Murphy, mileage may vary in terms of tone interpretation and enjoyment. He utilizes a, shall we say, unique & over-the-top style that may not be for everyone. Fortunately, Impeachment isn't even close to his "wackiest stuff" because of how constrained it is by an almost relentless pursuit of exact dialogues and period-specific details.

Ironically, that slavish devotion also led to one of my chief complaints about Impeachment, that being its 10 episodes feeling too long for what is essentially a mini-series event. Seven or eight episodes would have been perfect here. Ten? Well, there were times I found myself losing the overall Lewinsky/Tripp thread as side-tangents were not only explored, but done so in great detail.

Perhaps the hallmark of this entire season, however, was the acting. If Paulson doesn't win some serious hardware for her Tripp portrayal, it will be a crying shame. Truly one of the most complete on-screen transformations I've ever seen. Feldstein is also more-than-solid as the incredibly naive Lewinsky, while Owen's Clinton is somewhat amazingly as much of a caricature as it is spot-on. As such, the "soft spots" in Impeachment never feel like too much of an albatross because the performances are so mesmerizing.

Overall, Impeachment is equal parts nostalgic (for a certain formative-at-the-time age group), informative (for the social commentary), and entertaining (for the thespian work). I deduct one star for some of the Murphy shenanigans and other for being 2-3 episodes long in the tooth, but other than that I looked forward to each episode and it immediately went to the top of my weekly watchlist.

I didn't know what I was getting into when started this season, the plot felt not engaging but boy I was wrong.

This is not about Impeachment as title says, it's a smartly written series about the real crimes by media & institutions against all 4 female characters.

Paula Jones, Hilary, Linda & Monica were portrayed masterfully. I love that Bill Clinton & his trial was nothing but a sideline to focus on how women of this story were all defeated.by the society & media.

Brilliant story telling & a must watch.

Obviously the women suffered the most. So did the nation. For what? Thanks Bill! Thanks Ken Starr!

I think it was important to revisit thus undignified and petty part of our history. Who knew it could get even worse. Will it turn around and get better one day?

I remember when this happened and seeing the report on the internet. I had the same reaction as Ann Coulter to the gross details. "Did I just drop acid?"

Great miniseries all around. I'm glad it also included scenes about internet news dragging down journalism and the country's obsession with this sleaze while Bin Ladin was planning his evil schemes.

It was a great debut for Jenny Paul. I can't wait until her next project.

After Ken Starr found nothing he announced he was closing the "Whitewater" investigation. And the right wing idiots screamed like Howler monkeys on a honeymoon. So Ken went back to investigating. And continued to find nothing. Then came Linda Tripp. And the investigation now had something to investigate: Clinton's sex life.

Let's face reality: right wing idiots had their hero Nixon impeached and their other hero Reagan almost impeached and it still sticks in their craw to this day. No really, the whole Whitewater thing was an attempt to vindicate Nixon and Reagan. I mean what do you do when your "law and order" heroes are criminals? Get new heroes right? Wrong. You tear down your opponents. Why else would you investigate a failed land deal that was already investigated at the state level and nothing was found. And Whitewater was all the right wing idiots had. No break-ins, no arms for hostages, no nothing.

Don't belief me? Just ask any right wing idiot. Or ask Linda Tripp (yes I know she's dead). Remember how she went on and on about Reagan and Bush and waxed wroth about the Clinton's? Yeah that's the mind set of the right wing idiot.

Sorry to get political, but somebody had to say this and since Hank Ketchem died it's up to me.

The season finale title shared with "The Handmaid's Tale" is just interesting trivia. It could be merely coincidental, or could it be on purpose? After all, both shows chronicle the plight of women for being women, one from a draconian society and the other in a free world, yet the protagonist here also finds herself held captive with dwindling options during it all. Season 3 is very well done and a highly-recommended watch, as it is indeed the modern precursor to all of the public shaming that everyone has become oh so intimately familiar with today.

Beanie Feldstein is a great actress and she does successfully capture the complexity of Monica in the 90s - young and naive; passionate, ambitious, intelligent, but heedless and moronic at the same time. You just want to shake her by the shoulders and tell her, "Don't do that!" Kudos to Beanie for such portrayal, however her lack of resemblance to the real Monica Lewinsky is a bit distracting throughout. I also find Clive Owen's Bill Clinton just creepy and nothing else. Bill Clinton is supposed to be captivatingly charming too but I do not get any of that from his portrayal. It is unfortunate because these two are what this show is ultimately about, so the crew could have spent more time researching the perfect casting (find a young Carla Gugino?).

At least we have the legendary hilarious Judith Light, and of course Sarah Paulson who once again gets the top honor. Is there anything that this woman cannot do? She is a very underrated actress and deserves a big screen movie role that can snag her a Best Actress Oscar one day.

When I have watched the first season of American Crime Story on the O. J. Simpson trial, there was an epilogue on the final episode from that season. Explaining about the aftermath of each of these people that were involved. However there was no epilogue explaining on what happened to these people after the impeachment as well as the Clinton and Lewinsky scandal. No title cards, no notes, or sayings of any of them. It just ended sort of suddenly after that last shot of the scene where Monica Lewinsky was signing her books to the readers and then she started to freak out and ran after those people started to question her and about her secret affairs with Bill Clinton. I think we should know about those facts on what happened from the aftermath on each of these people. But we didn't. How disappointing. I know some people have pretty much blamed Monica Lewinsky on what she did, but I'm sure the whole thing was just a big mistake. I'm sure she knows that not everyone hates her. Some of it was pretty much on Bill Clinton, because of the semen that they found on that blue dress of hers. I think we pretty much know in the beginning it showed Monica had a crush on Bill, but back then she was so young and confused. It's quite obvious that she had no idea what she was doing. I'm sure we can all see that. That young woman deserves forgiveness.

This episode 10 "The Wilderness" from season 3 of "FX's" "American Crime Story" anthology series "Impeachment" is one tense and drama filled episode. The season finale wraps up the scandal of President Clinton and the central players all have their lives changed forever! After the Ken Starr report is made to the public, everyone wants to view so much of the details that internets are crashing with traffic search volume overload! After this then Bill escapes impeachment from the Senate, only his life with Hillary has changed forever as he has let her and the American people down. Monica and Linda both write books to tell their sides of the story, and Paula Jones now has a life of advising people, only she gives in and poses for "Penthouse". This finished a series that was tense and filled with memorable drama as the things that went on with these folks was interesting and strange. Overall great super well done season of the anthology as it was a fine pleasure and joy to watch.

Cobie Smulders was fantastic as Ann Coulter!!

From her appearance to her voice to her mannerisms...AMAZING!

Sarah Paulson...omg, Great actress!! She was so believable as Linda Tripp. I couldn't even see Sarah through the makeup, hair, etc.. Edie Falco, great as always!

Clive Owen, also great!

Beanie Feldstein, while obviously a great actress, was not the person to play Monica. She looked and sounded about 14 yrs old. Looked nothing like Monica in my opinion.

Great series and fantastic acting by Sarah Paulson. Her portrayal of Linda Tripp was brilliant. Her nastiness, her betrayal of Monica, her anguish at not getting her desired goal even after her elaborate scheme, was great to see. Wonderful.

Episode ratings:

One: 9 Two: 8 Three: 7 Four: 7 Five: 8 Six: 10 Seven: 7 Eight: 8 Nine: 6 Ten: 6

As you see by my ratings this season has an extremely strong start. I really enjoyed the OJ season even though it was way too neutral. I think most understand what the evidence point towards so it was weird they tried to present both sides. Well, here they present one side only and present it extremely strongly at that so you won't get any unsaid stuff. Keep in mind Monica Lewinsky is a co-producer on this season which really does explain the biases we see.

Firstly, Sarah Paulson is so good as Linda Tripp in her fatsuit that you HAVE to watch this. I don't care if you hate anything about the Clinton's or refuse to watch a show about politics. This is must-watch. This is one of the best ever acting performances by any woman. This really is this good I'm not exaggerating. She's just spectacular.

Another easily 10/10 acting job is by Cobie Smulders as Ann Coulter. My god is she hilarious. She just drops joke after joke and all are so controversial they would get her cancelled in a second in 2023. She would be deleted from the internet in seconds and never get a job again - it's funny! Unfortunately it's a small role.

Then there are other good performances by Colin Hanks, Annaleigh Ashford, Margo Martindale.

The main issue is the casting of Beanie Feldstein as Monica Lewinsky. Monica Lewinsky was always elegant and conservative in how she dressed. She looked like an aristocrat and today looks even better. She's quite smashing today. She had a girl next door look and was cute and charismatic despite being a bit overweight. Watch her interviews, she's a huge flirt, very powerful and direct, and knows what she wants. She oozes charisma. Her looks got her a job in the White House and from there she was whining and shouting every time she was offered a job she didn't want like working in the Pentagon or other top government agencies in cozy and well-paid jobs. That's all shown in this show directly as they recreate the notorious tape recordings in some scenes. In this show everyone also adores her. Bill loved her and just wanted to hang out with her even. At work everyone adores her. Her parents love her. Her friends like her. Yet the actress is flat in her performance and goes from boring to sad. She's never happy or charismatic. Clive Owen as Bill Clinton is 10 times more charismatic and it makes no sense for him to risk his marriage for her. She's very plain and boring. It's also a shame she didn't try to look like Monica Lewinsky. Beanie Feldstein is decent but she just lazily speaks her lines and never becomes the person unlike all older actors. And all the historical suits also seem way off as they are not meant to be worn by women who are overweight to this degree. It just all feels fake with her as it makes no sense for a president of USA, who women think is charismatic, to throw his presidency away for such a woman with no charisma while he himself points out she is stalking him and clearly is crazy. She was obsessed with him and would wait for 5 hours in lines just to shake his hand. He did notice this in the show so she would need to be extra pretty to make up for this and she was in real life. Even her mom looks way better in this TV show. Meanwhile most other characters are more attractive than in real life here like Linda Tripp looking fairly normal. This makes the episodes about Monica quite dull and fake and it explains why the season ends a bit on a lazy note when we move away from the investigation and flashy characters to this sad dry story about suffering. She just either cries or complains in all scenes. Even when they show her make millions from her books she is sad. Watch ANY interview with her and see if you can find a single minute where she acts this way. It makes no sense to dramatise this into fakeness of her being a small confused girl and Bill being abuser. In real life she knew what she wanted and her looks made her get it and then some.

They also overblow other feminist points like fully believing all accusers like Juanita Broaddrick and Paula Jones. Keep in mind the OJ season didn't take a side. Here they are 100% in one camp. They don't present Bill as evil as they didn't want to get sued - according to statements they made. But all women besides Linda Tripp are heroic and their stories are believed. Which seems like lazy filmmaking. At least be a bit critical and mysterious about this. We don't know what really happened or who is lying so no need to act like you know the truth. Hillary is also presented as heroic and strong. Again making it a bit of a mixed bag historically wise as conservative powerhouses like Brett Kavanaugh are presented as devious childish sex obsessed maniacs. Judge Kenneth Starr is just an evil rat here. Again, you can watch interviews with all these people online and in real life this is not how they come across. The show clearly picked a side. It's not really ruining the show, but it makes you wonder what could have been just like in season 1 where 90% of the evidence was not presented because there was so much of it that it would have made OJ look 100% guilty. I do think they can fix this in time for season 4. But they should stay out of anything related to politics, gender, and race.

I do love me some Ryan Murphy drama, and I've seen the previous two seasons of "American Crime Story" - though I haven't written reviews for them. I was initially not as invested in "Impeachment" as much as I was the with the Versace and Simpson stories - but I was won over as it ran on.

Linda Tripp (Sarah Paulson), an unpopular former White house staffer becomes friends with Monica Lewinsky (Beanie Feldstein), a former White House intern who was involved sexually with the President Bill Clinton (Clive Owen). Realising that her willingness to talk to her about the affair might provide various opportunities, Tripp begins recording the conversations. These tapes, used in conjunction with deposition from an ongoing case, involving the Presidents actions with Paula Jones (Annaleigh Ashford) are used by the Clinton's political enemies to introduce articles of impeachment.

I don't think I'm going to comment on the real-life situation of this very much. It's somehow become even more politically charged now than it was at the time. I will say though that I thought the show was balanced and isn't a Hollywood Clinton apologist effort, he's unquestionably a liar, a philanderer and even alleged rapist. The victims are the women involved in the story. Jones, Lewinsky and even, to some extent, Linda Tripp. Their lives are reassessed from the comedic punchlines they were at the time and their suffering and embarrassment is made apparent.

Initially, I struggled to get into the show. Several of the cast are wearing obviously prosthetic noses and that was all I could really focus on. It didn't help that it started slow too, with the twisting legal aspects of the show not coming in until four or five episodes in. When that aspect does kick in though, that's when the show is at its most interesting. When the Jones lawyers surprise Clinton with what they know about his affair with Lewinsky and the bare faced cheek of Clinton's technicality response to the Starr commission.

Performances are really good. Does Sarah Paulson ever put a foot wrong? Feldstein is ideally cast and, once I got used to the prosthetic of Annaleigh Ashford she was excellent too.

Ultimately, I thought it was really really good, but do agree with the people suggesting that if it was 8 episodes, and a little quicker to get to the meat of its story, it would have been even better.

I was beyond excited to learn this show was available and renewed my Disney + subscription to watch it. I have always been interested and fascinated by the Clinton Presidency. The scandal had rocked the nation, even the world, when it had come out. Clinton showed us why he was the comeback kid and his resilience prevailed during the toughest times. I learnt so much in detail about how this all started. The series does a decent job with providing details of certain events, there were some I rather see more of in detail. Some parts could have been cut short such as the taping of Lewinsky and Linda Tripp. I had wanted to see a little more about Clinton and behind the scenes. Clive Owen does a reasonable job of portraying Bill Clinton, he sounds very similar to him but I have to say looks nothing like him. The same goes for Edie Falco who looks and sounds nothing like Hilary. I think that aspect made it harder to buy into the drama and there were a few missed opportunities to lean more into such as the scandal and drama regarding the Clintons. Overall I enjoyed watching it and glad they made it.

After all the excruciating detail of the prior episodes this one ends without tying off some of the most critical plot points. Sure you can go look up what happened next but the series needs more closure for other plot points than what was reserved for Monica.

I mean really? Ridiculously long winded series, this story could have been told in 6 episodes. The acting, directing, production, cinematography, and writing were all fine. Its just sooooo stretched out, so much unnecessary exposition, so much conjecture.

Edie Falco was a miscast, as was Clive Owen. The standout was Annaleigh Ashford, she was fantastic as Paula Jones. Colin Hanks, Cobie Smulders and Billy Eichner were also excellent. Beanie Feldstein was fine, as was Sarah Paulson.

I understand Monica Lewinsky was an Executive Producer, the entire series is completely sympathetic and biased in her favor. Cutting down some of her characters sympathetic exposition would probably cut down 2 hours...

How many scenes of Monica watching tv do we need? How many scenes of Edie Falco not resembling Hillary at all being above everything and everyone do we need? Hillary should never have been played by Edie Falco! This show should have been more factual and historically correct and less whining of Paula Jones and Ann Coulter.

The entire series creates the same impression as turning over a damp, rotting, log in a rain-soaked forest and watching the various insects scurry, and slither, out.

Ham-fisted acting by characters playing surreal stereotypes of real-world figures history will assign to the cutting-room floor..

Rare exceptions: the actress who plays Ann Coulter.

This series is a remake of "Wizard of Oz" with Monica played as bewildered/stupid Dorothy/Bambi. Tripp as the Wicked Witch, etc. No shortage of evil monkeys, but, in this remake, they crawl, rather than fly.