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Slack.com slash DHQ. Can we all just be completely honest about something for a minute?

And I'm putting politics aside, just being completely honest, can we agree at least

that the 1998 impeachment series was way more entertaining and just better all around

in the reboot in 2019? I mean, sure, you've got the outlandish characters this time around,

Trump, obviously, Giuliani, Joe Biden, some good characters. But I'm not sure that they're

really better than the characters in the original. But the main thing is, you can only do so

much with characters. It all comes down to plot for me as a viewer. And the central plot

just isn't nearly as absorbing. It's just in the original show, you had sex, lies, betrayal.

It was really, critics at the time, of course, said it veered a little bit too much on

the soap opera territory, but which it did. But this is impeachment we're talking about.

That's what the show is supposed to be like. And this time, it's as if the producer said,

oh no, it was too soap opera last time. So we're going to intentionally make this as dry

as possible. So it all revolves around a phone call. Think about what the first impeachment

series revolved around. Think about that. And this time we have a phone call. It's just

plus, I don't want to bring this up, but someone has to mention, but the impeachment 98 had

a whole host of fascinating female characters. Lewinsky, Paula Jones, even Hillary Clinton

with her Karella Deville impression was pretty interesting. But this time, there's basically

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