What’s the Most Crucial Part of the Clinton Affair?
<em>Impeachment: American Crime Story</em> tells a humanizing story, but misses a bigger point.
If you’re in the mood for ’90s nostalgia, the first episode of Impeachment: American Crime Story is a scrunchie-wearing, SlimFast-drinking, Jane magazine–reading coast down memory lane. It has shopping malls and step-aerobics classes and pagers and the Gap, where Monica Lewinsky bought a sapphire-blue collared dress that would become one of that decade’s most defining emblems. The cleverest thing the FX series about the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal does is lull viewers into wistful remembrance right before walloping them with revisionism. Not everything about that decade, it emphasizes, should be remembered fondly.
has reframed history before. Ryan Murphy’s anthology series has excelled at taking some of the gaudiest tabloid spectacles, ,
