![]() Seeing as Andy, the first married man Monica slept with, has already appeared on CNN, the only reasonable response is “Yeah, duh.” It’s the eve of Marcia Lewinsky’s grand-jury testimony, but Monica, still without an immunity deal, is banished to her father’s Mission Revival mansion in California. Somewhere in the year of our Lord 1998, Monica gets an anonymous phone call warning her that Hillary is planning to give her the Gennifer Flowers special, which is to say, destroy her reputation by planting the details of her shady past in national news outlets. His advisers are right, but the very footage that saves Bill’s campaign creates America’s unshakable impression that Hillary is “abrasive” and “unfeeling.” Even in 2016, the heartland’s Tammy Wynette fans were among the constituencies she couldn’t win.Īlas, we mustn’t dwell. If Hillary can stomach Bill’s philandering, the thinking goes, voters will too. Instead, they settle on 60 Minutes and a black-ribbon headband to offset her emerald-green blazer. Right out of the gate, she suggests calling her Little Rock PI for some dirt to dump on Gen, which is, let’s face it, a very Clinton-esque thing to suggest. Bill’s team asks Hillary, still in the throes of her hatband phase, to come to New Hampshire for damage control. Rather than re-create the press conference Gennifer Flowers gave to promote Star’s coverage of her affair with Bill, Impeachment just runs the tape. When the episode begins, though, it’s 1992, and the president isn’t yet president. How do you play an outrageously angry and resentful woman who already knows that she won’t leave? That she can’t? Falco injects pathos into a decision popularly regarded as calculating. “You lit our life on fire,” she adds tearily. You are mayhem,” she screams as she pegs him with a bouquet of fresh flowers. When she finally lets rip, it’s clear why the role needs Falco. Hillary takes off her Bill-size blinders and confronts the brutally unfair situation in which she finds herself: The public face of her husband’s lies. ![]() Luckily, there’s the inimitable Edie Falco to ground us.įor the first seven episodes of Impeachment, Falco has lurked in a role so small I was genuinely puzzled why they bothered to cast such a powerhouse. His scattershot scheming can make for scattershot TV. ![]() The president finally tells the truth about his affair with Monica Lewinsky to his wife and the nation, effectively undoing his machinations in the previous episode and not for any compelling reason, like personal growth. In that regard, “Stand by Your Man” can be frustrating. The arc of a TV show isn’t always a perfect fit for real-life events.
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