Now in its third season of melodramatically abridging a gripping national headline, American Crime Story: Impeachment explores Bill Clinton’s near-exile from America’s highest office.
But despite Clive Owen’s spot-on Commander-in-Chief serving as the scandal’s focal point, he is — perhaps mercifully — absent; measurably surpassed in screentime and lacerating lines by Impeachment’s nine muses, many of whom are veterans of series creator Ryan Murphy’s oeuvre: Sarah Paulson (as a plucky, lurching Linda Tripp), Beanie Feldstein (a girlish and burdened Monica Lewinsky), Annaleigh Ashford (an underwritten Paula Jones), Margo Martindale (Lucianne Goldberg), Edie Falco (Hillary Clinton), Judith Light (Marcia Lewis), Elizabeth Reaser (Kathleen.