This is surreal,” Monica Lewinsky kept saying. She was trying to make her way to her seat in a crowded room where everyone wanted her attention. It was a hot summer night in New York, in a blip of a pandemic reprieve before the delta variant hit, and the city’s vaccinated elite were practically vibrating with energy. Nobody had been to a party like this in a long time.
The occasion was a July screening and reception to promote FX’s Impeachment, the latest instalment of Ryan Murphy’s American Crime Story anthology series, which revisits the events leading up to the impeachment of President Bill Clinton through the perspectives of the women involved.