Than Be Fired After the Watergate Case

From its genesis and in a single maneuver, the FX series refuted the narrative that the mediatic 90s forged in our collective memory. This time, it was Lewinsky's perspective that guided the ten chapters of Impeachment , along with the stories of the other women involved in the multi-layered case. The intention of the creators to give a voice to those who had previously suffered a highly hostile marginalization was not enough; A turn of the century was also necessary —marked in the United States not so much by the calendar as by the attack on the World Trade Center— and the breakdown of the gender paradigm, which took a few more decades and reached its high point.

Me-too movement . and the demonstrations known as the Women's March , with thepink pussy hats as a currency of struggle, in repudiation of C Level Contact List misogynist positions of Donald Trump —later added to the list of presidents subjected to impeachment. Enthusiasm and disappointment, happiness and pain, furtive contacts and endless waiting: the hazards of Lewinsky's affair with Clinton are mixed with the presumed friendship that she forms with Linda Tripp, a former government employee whom she meets when both are sent to work to the Pentagon.

It's Tripp the whistleblower who begins recording Lewinsky's telephone secrets with the aim of exposing presidential perjury and obstruction of justice—always claiming that her crusade had no " political " ends , despite the fact that she was an ardent Republican—and who arrives at Starr's office while being tempted with a million-dollar editorial deal. Impeachmentrevisits the most strident sexual scandal in political history and seems to rub against the times in which the real events occurred and those that enabled their passage to the screen: the rivalry between women could then take place in the open without the formwork —pure and chaste of class perspective—which are sororities or empathies by default of gender.