Friday, November 12, 2021

November TV Finales - Impeachment: American Crime Story

Impeachment: American Crime Story is the third season outing FX true-crime anthology television series American Crime Story. 

This was not the best season of the American Crime Story franchise. 

Consisting of a slightly bloated, 10 episodes the political sex storm commenced back at the start of September. A much darker time in Sydney's history.

The season portrays the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal and is based on the book A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President by Jeffrey Toobin.

Including long term Ryan Murphy friends, Sarah Paulson, Annaleigh Ashford, Judith Light along with Beanie Feldstein, Clive Owen, Margo Martindale, Billy Eichner, Cobie Smulders, Edie Falco, Taran Killam, Colin Hanks, Mira Sorvino, Elizabeth Reaser, and Anthony Green. 

Sarah Paulson is outstanding as the vile Linda Tripp. The audience/folks in the series really end up hating Tripp. Beanie Feldstein as lead Lewinsky is a funny little thing. You feel bad for her, whilst question, why? A lot of the run of ten episodes.

It could have been a tighter eight episode run with a much less fluff and chat. I felt like the finale just ended, like boom. Oh well that all just happened over ten episodes. A pile of talk, little action while not being that conclusive.

We all know he was Impeached, we all know after the Trump years it means nothing, so this one could be easily left for a rainy day. Oh hey that's most days this week in Sydney.

Not as good as the OJ season, not as sexy as The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, so it is a distant third place out of the Crime Story seasons. Let's hope the Studio 54 season is better.

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