American Crime Story: Impeachment–Here’s How Much the Cast Resembles Their IRL Counterparts

Linda Tripp’s daughter Allison is speaking out about Sarah Paulson’s portrayal of her mom in “Impeachment: American Crime Story”.

Mónica Marie Zorrilla The debut of “Impeachment: American Crime Story” on Sept. 7 was down significantly in the Nielsen Live+Same Day ratings from Ryan Murphy’s previous retellings of the O.J.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorHulu customers expecting to stream “Impeachment: American Crime Story” today — or anytime soon — will be disappointed: The FX limited series isn’t on the Disney-controlled streaming platform’s on-demand streaming tiers.Instead, “Impeachment,” a retelling of the notorious Monica Lewinsky-Bill Clinton saga from more than two decades ago, will be headed to Netflix sometime in 2022.

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of tonight’s Impeachment: American Crime Story debut episode.

Blast from the past. Impeachment: American Crime Story might put Monica Lewinsky front and center, but viewers will be introduced to another important woman in the saga: Paula Jones.

is finally set to premiere. The third chapter of creator Ryan Murphy’s follows the impeachment of former president Bill Clinton after his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

In the wake of documentaries on Britney Spears, Lorena Bobbitt, and other victims of a crueler, “more misogynistic” press machine, the hook to these projects is a prodding at both individual and collective memory. They claim to be recontextualizations, revisions, and rehabilitations, while they are still fundamentally pieced together as amalgamations of fame and identity, with the involvement of the subject or not.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorMonica Lewinsky stepped out to FX’s champagne toast to “Impeachment: American Crime Story” on Wednesday night at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood.Lewinsky, a producer on the latest installment of Ryan Murphy’s Emmy-winning anthology series, posed for photographers on the red, white and blue arrivals carpet for a few minutes before skipping the interview press to head inside to a makeshift cocktail lounge.

Ryan Murphy’s penchant for campy histrionics in focusing its narrative arc on the three women whose cumulative actions culminated in Clinton’s fall from grace: Monica Lewinsky (Beanie Feldstein), Linda Tripp (Murphy stock player Sarah Paulson) and Paula Jones (“B Positive” star Annaleigh Ashford). They each deliver terrific performances in an absorbing take on a scandal that closed out the decade on a sour note.

Beanie Feldstein poses with Monica Lewinsky at the premiere of FX’s Impeachment: American Crime Story at Pacific Design Center on Wednesday night (September 1) in West Hollywood, Calif.