Early reviews focused on the first seven episodes, which is all that were released to media before hand.
The show was rightly praised for not focusing excessively on the obvious prurient interests.
That comes to an end with this episode, which is composed mainly of Monica Lewinsky being interrogated and then detailing the sexual encounters between her and Bill.
The same show that seems to condemn the Starr report basically uses it as a script for the last quarter of the show.
E.g. "Did he touch your breasts over your bra or under your bra?"
"well sometimes he would take my breasts out of my bra and other times he would lift my bra over my breasts".
One or two of these cringe worthy exchanges would've gotten the point across about how Lewinski was treated - we don't need 15 solid minutes of it. We certainly didn't need Monica reporting all the details about the cigar.
The show could've referenced these infamous details in ways other than this cringe fest. (Such as the first several episodes which were very well done in this regard).
The excessive focus sort of calls into question the filmmakers' perspective that such invasive questioning was wrong. If you know wrong, why base half of your episode on it?
The questioning with the grand jury seemed to take a lot of dramatic license to make Monica appear sympathetic. As surrogate viewers they start out questioning her decision to pursue two affairs with married men, but then, of course, are convinced in due time that her motives were pure. The show is definitely bent on convincing us of this.
The first part of the episode with Linda and the waffle maker was very well done. Sarah Poulson is excellent! Another reviewer has commented on how it's emblematic of how this character is condescending and manipulative and yet believes those very actions are praiseworthy. Well done.
We watched the whole series and will finish, but it definitely took a serve downturn here at the end. It almost seems like these last few episodes have had completely different writers. Too bad!
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