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The series makes room for that reading, certainly Impeachments Tripp is petty, vindictive, and selfish.
She is foolish, too, or at least just smart enough to make some very foolish mistakes.
She wants attention, and she cant muster the self-awareness required to admit how much she wants it.
Everything bad in her life was done to her.
Everything good was the result of her own herculean unappreciated effort.
As portrayed in this series, she is a woman who simply does not fit in.
But it also gives her a readier insight into all the ways the world is broken.
Whatever elseACSs Tripp might be, she is not wrong about that.
I meanshouldin a few ways here.
Too often, though, Paulsons performance is uncannily like Tripp herself.
It is trying so, so hard, in a way that makes you want to recoil.
Most of all, Feldsteins performance underlines how young Lewinsky was.
She is out of her depth in every scene.
Clinton is charismatic and sly, full of hubristic confidence.
There are attendant side characters, most of them ghoulish embodiments or Hey, look at that guy!
Its a familiar story.
Everyone is hurt by her actions, most especially the person Tripp tells herself she is trying to save.
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