The season finale title shared with "The Handmaid's Tale" is just interesting trivia. It could be merely coincidental, or could it be on purpose? After all, both shows chronicle the plight of women for being women, one from a draconian society and the other in a free world, yet the protagonist here also finds herself held captive with dwindling options during it all. Season 3 is very well done and a highly-recommended watch, as it is indeed the modern precursor to all of the public shaming that everyone has become oh so intimately familiar with today.
Beanie Feldstein is a great actress and she does successfully capture the complexity of Monica in the 90s - young and naive; passionate, ambitious, intelligent, but heedless and moronic at the same time. You just want to shake her by the shoulders and tell her, "Don't do that!" Kudos to Beanie for such portrayal, however her lack of resemblance to the real Monica Lewinsky is a bit distracting throughout. I also find Clive Owen's Bill Clinton just creepy and nothing else. Bill Clinton is supposed to be captivatingly charming too but I do not get any of that from his portrayal. It is unfortunate because these two are what this show is ultimately about, so the crew could have spent more time researching the perfect casting (find a young Carla Gugino?).
At least we have the legendary hilarious Judith Light, and of course Sarah Paulson who once again gets the top honor. Is there anything that this woman cannot do? She is a very underrated actress and deserves a big screen movie role that can snag her a Best Actress Oscar one day.
Beanie Feldstein is a great actress and she does successfully capture the complexity of Monica in the 90s - young and naive; passionate, ambitious, intelligent, but heedless and moronic at the same time. You just want to shake her by the shoulders and tell her, "Don't do that!" Kudos to Beanie for such portrayal, however her lack of resemblance to the real Monica Lewinsky is a bit distracting throughout. I also find Clive Owen's Bill Clinton just creepy and nothing else. Bill Clinton is supposed to be captivatingly charming too but I do not get any of that from his portrayal. It is unfortunate because these two are what this show is ultimately about, so the crew could have spent more time researching the perfect casting (find a young Carla Gugino?).
At least we have the legendary hilarious Judith Light, and of course Sarah Paulson who once again gets the top honor. Is there anything that this woman cannot do? She is a very underrated actress and deserves a big screen movie role that can snag her a Best Actress Oscar one day.