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The next “American Crime Story” season will be about Bill Clinton’s impeachment after Monica Lewinsky scandal
For two seasons, “American Crime Story” has portrayed two of the most salacious celebrity-involved crimes of the 1990s, and the next installment of the FX series is no different. The third season will be dedicated to President Clinton’s impeachment following his affair with Monica Lewinsky.
The show covered the O.J. Simpson trial in 2016 and the assassination of Gianni Versace in 2018. Both Hurricane Katrina and the Clinton impeachment were rumored as possible themes for Season 3.
Variety has confirmed the third season will be based on Jeffer Toobin’s book “A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President.”
Production of the new season will begin in February 2020 and it will premiere the following September, according to an announcement made during the Television Critics Association press tour, Variety reports.
Variety reports Beanie Feldstein will play Monica Lewinsky, the 22-year-old White House intern who had an affair with President Clinton. Feldstein recently starred in the coming-of-age comedy “Booksmart.” Feldstein, who also won raves for her role in the film “Lady Bird,” comes from an acting family — she is Jonah Hill‘s sister.
Sarah Paulson, who has held roles in every “American Horror Story” season and in one season of “American Crime Story,” will play Linda Tripp, Lewinsky’s confidant.
Annaleigh Ashford will play Paula Jones, who sued President Clinton for sexual harassment.
The season will be executive produced by Paulson, Sarah Burgess, Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, Larry Karaszewski, Scott Alexander, Alexis Martin Woodall, and of course, Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk, the creators of both “American Crime Story” and “American Horror Story.”
The anthology shows often utilize the same actors in different roles each season. In “American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson,” Paulson played Marcia Clark, the lead prosecutor in the O.J. Simpson case. Ashford had a small role as Andrew Cunanan’s friend in “American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace.”
The third season is set to be titled “Impeachment: American Crime Story,” according to Variety.
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In an uneven finale, American Horror Story says you can’t outrun your fate
The apocalypse has finally come to an end. After nine episodes that seemed practically plodding after the overstuffed episodes of last year’s Cult, the season finale packed in everything, including so many clips from those last nine episodes you’d have to be forgiven for thinking an editor had been sleeping on the job and accidentally spliced the “previously on” in every five minutes.
The return of Angela Bassett was as welcome as it was wholly unnecessary. Marie Laveau barely has time to glare at Michael before he’s eating her heart. Her triumphant, blink and you miss it cameo captured the overall feel of the episode. There was a lot to smile about. Kathy Bates exploded! And her oozing head sang “Daisy Bell!” But what was it all for?
Likewise Cordelia’s sacrifice was so inevitable it seemed strange for it to play out like a surprising choice, to anyone involved. Since Mallory was first identified as the next Supreme, it was clear Cordelia would have to die so Mallory could rise and reach her full potential. Could Myrtle really be shocked by Cordelia’s suicide, especially when she offered an “I love you,” before walking very slowly and intentionally out of the room where their last hope seemed to be bleeding out in the bathtub? Billy Eichner’s jilted lover returning just long enough to stab Mallory was surprising. Where it ultimately brought the storyline was not.
Maybe the biggest problem the writers had to deal with was the fact the dots laid out in this season had, for the most part, been connected before the finale. If the audience understood Mallory and Coco must have been put under an identity spell for their protection if they were bumping around the bunker completely powerless, did we need to see it performed? If the pilot had already offered a peek into what their assistant/boss from hell dynamic looked like, did we need to see it play out under the watchful eyes of Madison? And while you don’t really need an excuse to watch Jessica Lange act, if we knew Michael eventually ended up in the loving arms of Ms Mead, desperate for a maternal figure, did we need to see his Grandma reject him completely then throw him out? It’s possible that scene even undercut, just a little, the moment when she leaves him to bleed out in the street after Mallory the time traveler hit him with her car. The moment just after he begs her to put him in the murder house does offer the night’s best moment of suspense. In a world where people often act against their own best interests in a spectacular fashion, it didn’t seem implausible that she might have preserved her grandson’s murderous spirit in the house with the rest of his family forever. But maybe she knew it was time for a new son of Satan to rise.
Getting past the terrifying new bit of world building that says you don’t need anything as specific as an evil ghost in the mix to give birth to the Antichrist, just two nice twenty-somethings who like coffee, going back to the season’s narrative beginnings (actually, to the series’ beginnings) could be seen as capturing an idea about the inescapable nature of fate. But while last season’s cyclical moment, the cult victim turned cult leader assassin turned cult leader at least captured an evolution, a second bouncing baby Antichrist, with the exact same MO as toddler Michael, just seems like a let down. The good guys won, and while it can be satisfying in a twisted way to see the people you’re rooting for realize their victory will be short lived, allowing only the audience to realize this bleak development felt hallow. Here’s hopping it’s all a set up for season nine— American Horror Story: Demonic Preschool. Maybe all Michael needed was some equally bloodthirsty kids to play with so he’d reach his full potential without so much angst.
That’s it for AHS: Apocalypse. Thanks for reading this season!
Stray Observations
- It was obviously suppose to be a call back to the pilot when the top secret apocalypse police picked up Timothy because his 23andme kit proved he had desirable DNA, but there is no way Emily, protestor against child labor, would go on even an apology date with a dude who said with no trace of irony he was .07% Brazilian.
- Even if you run over the Antichrist three times, you should probably just double check he actually died. Better safe than sorry when the literal fate of the world is in your hands.
- It makes sense Mallory would want to keep the whole knowing the future because she averted the apocalypse thing a secret, but in a school for witches, would it really be a big deal to tell Queenie she’s heard of the hotel, and it traps your soul? It seems less dangerous than counting on her frustration with traffic to keep herself out of harm’s way.
- So Coco, Mallory, Mr. Gallant and his Grandma were in the bunker because the witches set it up, Timothy and Emily were satanic plants, and Dinah and company got seats after she sold her soul. But Palo Alto tweedledee and tweedledum told Myrtle outpost three was full. So where were the rest of the celebrities? Surely they could have gotten some premium impersonators to round out the ensemble.
- Nan is the best. That is all.
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The Satanic Temple sues Netflix for $150 million for using a statue of a demon god in ‘The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’
- The Satanic Temple is suing Netflix and Warner Brothers for $150 million, saying the companies infringed on its copyrights, violated its trademark, and caused injury to its business reputation in its show “The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.”
- The Satanic Temple says in the lawsuit that it has a copyright on the depiction of Baphomet used in the show.
We usually do not pay much attention to The Church of Satan, but every few months they come about to remind us that they are very much active.
Netflix and Warner Bros. are feeling the wrath of satanists.
The Satanic Temple is suing Netflix and Warner Brothers for $150 million, saying the companies infringed on its copyrights, violated its trademark, and caused injury to its business reputation, according to court documents filed on Thursday in a New York district court.
At the center of the controversy is Baphomet, described in the court documents as “an androgynous goat-headed deity.” A statue of the satanic god surrounded by children is featured in the Netflix series “The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.”
However, the lawsuit claims the show’s statue is similar to its real-life Baphomet monument, which was made famous by an Indiegogo campaign in 2014. Although it was intended to be installed next to the Ten Commandments at the Oklahoma State Capitol, it now resides in Detroit after multiple protests. The Baphomet statue has since become “a central icon that has come to represent us [satanists] as a people,” explained The Satanic Temple co-founder Lucien Greaves.
“To have that all at once entirely eclipsed by some Netflix show by a production department who did a Google Image Search… A lot of people who haven’t heard of us first stand to just recognize that monument as the ‘Sabrina’ monument, which dilutes and denigrates the entire project,” he said.
Because the statue is featured prominently in the show, The Satanic Temple claims its members are being associated with the “evil antagonists” depicted in the series. The characters of the show, who worship the “Dark Lord” or Satan, engage in cannibalism, necromancy, murder and torture, among other nefarious activities.
The Satanic Temple, on the other hand, “does not promote evil and instead holds to the basic principle that undue suffering is bad, and that which reduces suffering is good,” the organization claims. It hails Satan as a “rebel against God’s authority, rather than an evil being.”
The religious group reached out to Netflix and Warner Bros. to remove the depiction when it became aware of the statue in the series, but its request went unanswered.
“It does really kind of normalize this notion that the only true meaning of this type of religious identification is one that can be associated with a patriarchal, cannibalistic cult,” Greaves said. “We’re so inundated with this anti-Satan fiction that a lot of people think its superfluous to pursue to a claim like this at all.”
Netflix and Warner Bros. declined to comment, citing pending litigation.
Article via CNBC
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