American Crime Story
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Is it just me or is the third outing of Ryan MurphysAmerican Crime Storya little light on crime?
But before we can ponder, the show rolls into a springy sequence with huge dust him off energy.
Ace of Base plays as she hits step class.
THIS MUST BE THE 90s!
screams every single directorial choice.
Monica answers a page from Linda Tripp (beepers!
), who asks to have lunch at the Pentagon City food court (the mall!
), where Monica buys a magazine (Jane!)
while being trailed by G-men.
Its the shows third visual register in as many minutes.
She is escorted into a shopping-mall Ritz-Carlton, a Ritz that shares a street address with a Cinnabon.
Was there no suite available at the Hay-Adams?
In 1993, Linda makes herself a breakfast shake (SlimFast!)
That said, theyre in the middle of a rare good day at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Hes poring over a criticalWSJop-ed instead.
Youre a kind person, Vince tells Linda, which is not true to the best of our knowledge.
They have a protracted and profoundly awkward interaction about the M&Ms.
He leaves some leftovers scattered on the tray for her.
The M&Ms she got him are now hers again.
The dialogue here can best be described asTwin Peaksy.
CUT TO: Los Angeles in 1994.
New mom Paula Jones tells someone on the phone (cordless!)
When Steve does read it, hes incensed.
Paula is painfully shy and refuses to divulge the details of Clintons unwanted sexual advances.
The press is as hostile as they were in real life.
Is it something that could have been performed without your taking your clothes off?
isa line ripped from the actualhorror show.
Kathleen can barely stand her, though she still confides in Linda when Bill kisses her in the Oval.
Shes just always around.
Its not until Bernie resigns that Linda learns exactly how unpopular she is.
Shes so awful in her meeting with the incoming WH counsel that he gives her job to Kathleen instead.
Eventually, shes promoted up and out of the West Wing to an unglamorous Pentagon post.
If Linda was upset about what happened with Vince, now shes enraged.
I will get you for this, Linda spits at Kathleen.
As Linda is exiled, Paula attracts powerful admirers.
Paula is going to have to sue.
It really does suck.
She and her cubicle-mate are enemies.
She finally snags a temporary office through sustained and vociferous complaining.
Linda is nothing if not relentless.
In fact, shes still not over her West Wing ouster.
After stewing in purgatory, shes finally ready to write that tell-all.
If only she had some hot goss.
She and Linda bond over being lightly bullied in school and feeling marooned at DoD.
Linda can smell a secret; Monicas judgment is terrible.
For Monica, its a call from her maybe kinda boyfriend, POTUS.
Bills non-presence looms over the premiere, but when he finally shows up, its anticlimactic.
Did the hero just arrive or the big baddie?
But in episode one, at least, theyre no more fully rendered than they were on the periphery.
Draw the penis for me.
Show me what you mean by the shaft was bent or crooked.
