American Crime Story: Stand by Your Man (2021)
Season 3, Episode 8
4/10
Stand by Your Man
15 February 2022
The episode title is not only a reference of a Tammy Wynette song. It is also hark backs to an interview that Hillary Clinton gave.

Now Hillary has to decide whether to stand by her man. Bill owns up to the Lewinsky affair to her.

Bill also needs to testify in front of the Starr committee. For that he has lined up some weasel words to indicate what does sexual relations means. The idea came from what the lawyers of Paula Jones asked Bill.

In the background of all this is the rise of terrorism activities involving Osama Bin Laden.

That is a reach to suggest that this scandal affected Bill Clinton from pursuing Bin Laden. After all this was a self inflicted wound.

Kenneth Starr comes across as suitably shifty and partisan. He is certainly not independent. I had little time for him before he revealed himself to be a hypocritical oath especially after Trump's presidency.

It does not help that Edie Falco is just too old to play Hillary Clinton of the mid 1990s.
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