Following on from The People Vs O.J. Simpson and The Assassination of Gianni Versace, prolific TV producer Ryan Murphy’s anthology series American Crime Story tackles yet another world-shaking criminal scandal: the impeachment of then-President Bill Clinton (Clive Owen) for sexual impropriety. That’s some juicy material right there.
How to watch American Crime Story: Impeachment in New Zealand
American Crime Story: Impeachment is streaming in New Zealand on Disney+ from August 14.
American Crime Story: Impeachment
What is American Crime Story: Impeachment about?
Based on the book A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President by Jeffrey Toobin, this season follows the complete garbage fire that ignited when Bill Clinton was impeached for an affair with White Wouse intern Monica Lewinsky. We follow both Lewinsky (Beanie Feldstein, fantastic) as she is drawn into a predatory relationship with the most powerful man in the world, and aggrieved White House employee Linda Tripp (Sarah Paulson), who uses her knowledge of the relationship to strike back at the government for derailing her career, all rendered in Murphy’s trademark campy histrionics.
The cast of American Crime Story: Impeachment
In addition to Feldstein and Paulson, we have Annaleigh Ashford as fellow accuser Paula Jones; the great Margo Martindale as literary agent and fixer Lucianne Goldberg; Edie Falco as Hillary Clinton; Clive Owen as Bill; plus a ludicrously stacked supporting cast that includes Colin Hanks, Cobie Smulders, Taran Killam, Mira Sorvino, Rae Dawn Chong, Danny Jacobs, George Salazar, Judith Light, Billy Eichner, Christopher McDonald, Jim Rash, and Blair Underwood.
American Crime Story: Impeachment trailer
What are the critics saying about American Crime Story: Impeachment?
Well, we know what our own critic, the hugely talented, ruggedly handsome, and criminally underappreciated Travis Johnson said: “What could have been a dramatic examination of institutional misogyny and the politics of power instead takes the cheapest, easiest route, turning it into a bombastic potboiler.”
That guy seems like he knows what he’s on about. Snappy dresser, too.
