History Series / Impeachment

* BittersweetEnding: ''Oh boy.'' [[spoiler:Paula has a hard time making money and engages in less-then-respectable ventures, leading to being abandoned by her MoralGuardian allies, but she divorces Steve, who spent the entire series being a toxic influence to her. Juanita Broaddick never gets the closure she needs for her rape allegations against Clinton; Bill is impeached and acquitted but his reputation and marriage is now tainted, while Hillary enjoys a surge in popularity for standing by him and supporting him and starts her own political career but is saddled with her marriage. Linda is one of the most famous women in the United States but also becomes widely hated and the media ridicule forces her to get plastic surgery that radically alters her appearance and still believes she did the right thing for Monica. Monica is enjoying some popularity and her freedom is ensured, but she is shown to be exhibiting PTSD from all the press coverage, the Starr investigation, and the insensitivity of her fans and has to publish her memoirs as a way to pay off her legal fees. At least she is able to reconnect with friend Kat after having to ghost her to prevent a subpeona on her friend and moves to New York City where people mostly leave her alone.]]

** Coulter angrily says that if Clinton gets away with perjury it will clear the path for more "flabby con men" to become President.
** Laura Ingraham is implied to be secretly gay(or at least bi)as it's mentioned she's spending time with a "female golf partner" which is a knock on how Ingraham quickly became infamous for her numerous homophobic statements.

** "The Assassination of Monica Lewinsky" covers how the media started making sexist jokes about Monica's promiscuity in the talk shows (along with her weight) and bringing out her ex-boyfriends to talk poorly about her,, especially when Clinton denied the affair and labeled her as troubled and a stalker, never mind that one of her exes started outright admitting to grooming her when she was a teenager.

** Ann Coulter (of all people), points out in the aftermath of the impeachment the bizarre reality that the world has been exposed to how awful Bill Clinton is as a person, and yet he has come out more popular and would likely win re-election if he could run again and that as a result [[{{Foreshadowing}} any con artist could run for president and win]].

* SweaterGirl: Monica, in her first meeting with Bill Clinton, she wears a light blue sweater that shows off her large breasts and gets a compliment on it from Bill. She then wears these in her meetings with him or anything that shows off her curves.

* BettyAndVeronica: Depending on whose view you adopt, Hillary (blonde pageboys, not noted for her fashion, IceQueen image, middle-aged wife and mother from the Midwest) and Monica (fashionable dark hair, stylish, bubbly and insecure, young SweaterGirl from Beverly Hills) could fall into either role with Bill Clinton as the Archie.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: Ann Coulter gets fired from her job on Creator/{{MSNBC}} for telling a paraplegic war veteran that people like him were the reason America lost UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar, apparently unaware that he'd lost both his legs.

** Monica Lewinsky was known for a curvaceous figure that fluctuated, but she was nowhere near as plump as the shorter Beanie Feldstein (who for her part, wore constricting shapewear to match the dimensions of Monica's figure). Other than that, they are Jewish brunettes with green eyes and [[BuxomIsBetter possess a superpower]].

** One of the show's first teasers shows Lewinsky walking down a hall to the Oval Office with a gift for Clinton. The camera focuses on her curvy shape and breasts as she [[SexyWalk sashays on her way]].

* LargeHam: Matt Drudge deliberately projects an image of an old-timey IntrepidReporter, with a healthy dose of Billy Eichner's real life CampGay persona.

* ShesGotLegs:
** Ann Coulter, as per her real-life clothing choices, tends to always appear in short skirts that showcase her long legs.
** Monica gets to do this when she wears conservative suits that still show off shapely gams.

** Monica and Linda, respectively. It is evidenced from their first meeting at the Pentagon where Linda is temporarily working in the office of a co-worker who was on vacation, after demanding an office and being a GrumpyBear, particularly when the starstruck Monica gets excited over the poster of Bill Clinton and Linda acts dismissive.

* HoYay: Implied with Laura Ingraham who is mentioned to be spending time with her "female golf partner", which is a TakeThat to the real-life Ingraham who is rather infamous for her rampant homophobic statements.

* NiceHat: Monica is seen wearing her iconic berets, often with a hat pin, when she meets Clinton in crowds. In "The Wilderness", she wears a wide-brimmed straw hat to shield her face from the sun and wears baseball caps to evade the paparazzi.

** Linda lands in this by way of Lucianne Goldberg using her to find ways to discredit Bill Clinton and even taping her.

** William Ginsburg is the loud and opinionated SirSwearsALot who loses sight of the case and goes on a media rampage against Kenneth Starr, in contrast to the team of lawyers Monica hires for the case who are able to give Mike Emmick TwerpSweating with just a warm smile.

* RulesLawyering: In "Stand By Your Man", Clinton argues that he and Monica did not have sexual relations based on the definition of sexual relations used by Paula Jones's lawyers.

** Paula and Steve Jones are portrayed as comically naive hayseeds being manipulated by the likes of Ann Coulter to bring down Clinton.

-->'''Hilary''': You know what you are Bill? You are chaos. You are mayhem. It's like everywhere you go, everything you do, it just disorients people long enough for you to have your way.

** Hilary initially isn't fazed at all by the scandal, absolutely trusting Bill that nothing actually happened. When he finally has to admit he lied to her, she is absolutely furious and lays into him for ruining everything they were working toward just because he wanted to get off.
** After a whole episode where Linda is gloating over the possibility of being considered a national hero and the attention of the press, she deflates as soon as she sees Creator/JohnGoodman's portrayal of her on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''. The finale sees her undergoing plastic surgery that slims down her appearance.
* BrainyBrunette: Monica, while downplayed due to her naivete, is well-educated, intelligent, well-read; having gifted Clinton a copy of her favorite book in college, the very non-light monograph ''Disease and Representation: Images of Illness from Madness to AIDS''. She is also a gifted communicator who majored in psychology and was qualified to intern at the White House; she also savvily keeps Kenneth Starr's team lingering as they detain her for questioning. In RealLife, she later studied and graduated from the London School of Economics and has become an executive producer.

As with other seasons of ''American Crime Story'', ''Impeachment'' features an AllStarCast including the likes of Creator/SarahPaulson as Linda Tripp, Creator/MargoMartindale as Lucianne Goldberg, Creator/BillyEichner as Matt Drudge, Creator/EdieFalco as UsefulNotes/HillaryRodhamClinton, Creator/AnthonyGreen as UsefulNotes/AlGore, Creator/AnnaleighAshford as Paula Jones, Creator/TaranKillam as Steve Jones, Creator/CobieSmulders as Ann Coulter, Creator/ElizabethReaser, Creator/JudithLight, and Creator/ColinHanks.

** Brett Kavanaugh (whose Supreme Court confirmation hearings in 2018 were overshadowed by accusations of sexual assault) briefly appears in his role as part of Ken Starr's team and is portrayed as extremely creepy by trying to make the Starr report look as sleazy as possible, plus at one point someone tells him "I know you don't take no for an answer."