The President Kissed Me

I'm really not feeling much for this series. Impeachment has left me cold and Clive Owen does not convince me as Bill Clinton.

The bombshell is Monica telling Linda that she is having an affair with President Clinton.

You get to see how Monica's relationship with the President developed. You can also sense Linda Tripp lapping all this up. She is no fan of the Clintons.

At the same time conservative publicists are working on Paula Jones. At the moment they just hope she will embarrass the President, not knowing that there is dynamite elsewhere.

Looking at these events almost 20 years later. It is hard to muster sympathy for Bill Clinton even as a liberal sympathiser. It was well known by 1992 that Clinton could not keep his zipper up. However as President, people expected better from him.

Poor.script , worse acting. Do not bother.

Do we really need another.

The theme of this episode and one of the major themes of this series is the exploitation of the 2 women at the heart of this drama. It is most obvious with Monica, who is being used by Bill for his personal ends but also, ironically, Paula, who resisted Clinton, and who is being used by conservatives to attack the President. Monica is being used by Linda as well, apparently to strike back at the administration that exiled her to her relatively trivial job at the Pentagon. And now the press is coming into the picture. Nobody cares about these two women except in so far as they are useful to the desires of others.

The leads and supporting cast members are superb.

Jenny C. Paul as Susan is a new breakout star destined to be nominated for an Emmy. Keep an eye on this new performer. She is going places.

Fantastic acting! Particularly by the actresses playing Monica, Linda and Paula. I was a teen when this happened so I didn't really follow it closely, so it's really interesting to me to hear the whole story or I guess Monica's side probably mostly, haha but still good. I think it's really well written and acted. Holds my attention!