History YMMV / Impeachment

*** Third is Paula finally divorcing Steve after several episodes of her being his LoveMartyr to his abusive selfishness.

* SugarWiki/SheReallyCanAct: After playing a plucky teen in ''Film/{{Booksmart}}'' and the FatBestFriend in films like ''Film/LadyBird'' and ''[[Film/Neighbors2014 Neighbors 2]]'', Creator/BeanieFeldstein carries steps into a serious lead role and gets to be sexy, complex, hurt, vulnerable, and witty as Monica Lewinsky.

* WTHCastingAgency:
** Creator/CliveOwen's casting was met with a ton of confusion as while he does a decent enough vocal impersonation of Bill Clinton, he does not really look anything like him, especially since the rest of the cast do indeed seem to have been chosen for their resemblance to the real people.
** Having Creator/SarahPaulson don a fat suit to play Linda Tripp[[note]]Though she did actually gain 30 pounds for the role[[/note]] rather than an actual plus-size actress got a lot of criticism. Paulson herself admitted she didn't think enough about the implications when she accepted the role.

** Juanita Broddick came across as this to some critics and fans as they said that due to some of her real life counterpart's despicable actions in later years (spouting dangerous anti-vaxxer conspiracy theories about COVID-19 on social media, attacking other alleged sexual assault survivors like Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and E. Jean Carroll and doubting their stories, even targeting Monica Lewinsky, etc.), the show trying to frame her as sympathetic came across as woefully misguided, with many saying they found it difficult to feel any kind of remorse for her in the show when [[spoiler: her interview about Clinton gets largely ignored and dismissed due to the public being sick of hearing about Clinton by that point]].

** After a whole episode of Monica being terrorized and verbally abused by Ken Starr's legal team, it is immensely satisfying to watch her lawyer berate all of them over the phone and then tell Monica that she's free to go (and that there's nothing the lawyers can do to stop her.)

*** First of all is Monica's testimony, where after several episodes of getting beaten up in the press, Monica encounters a surprisingly sympathetic jury who are appropriately horrified when she describes how she was treated by the OIC.

** The most prominent member of Ann Coulter's team is only referred to with his first name George. People familiar enough with the time period will realize he's actually George Conway, who would later rise to prominence as a rare anti-Donald Trump voice among the Republicans, despite his wife Kellyanne being in Trump's inner circle as a counselor.[[note]](Even people who only know George from his later anti-Trump activism might be able to realize it, as his actor in the show shares an uncanny resemblance to him.)[[/note]]

* IntendedAudienceReaction: If you didn't go into this series with a perception of Linda Tripp as an odious, selfish, delusional, and utterly loathsome individual, you'll definitely come out of it that way.

* StoicWoobie: Betty Currie, Clinton's loyal secretary and friend. Betty has no choice but to be privy to the details of Bill and Monica's inappropriate relationship, has to field her calls to him with her own personal number, her own feelings do not matter in this, and Clinton pretty much coerced her to lie about the relationship. This even goes outside out-of-universe, as not addressed in the series is that Betty Currie's own experiences with the media (for example, Linda Tripp wasn't the only female figure to be portrayed by a man in drag on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''; Tim Meadows and Tracy Morgan portrayed Betty) and her voice in this scandal go unheard because she lacks the privileges of the other white women involved. Creator Sarah Burgess even noted that the media fallout over Betty was both racist and misogynistic as they blamed her for Clinton's actions.

** Linda. We are supposed to feel bad about her WeightWoe and insecurity over not being considered as feminine or appealing as other women, especially after she watches John Goodman play her on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' but this was during the same episode where her ex-friend is being hounded by the press and is having her character assassinated (she also uses said friend's insecurity over her figure to manipulate her), add to that her large ego at being surrounded by the press. Many commenters in social media stated that Linda was the least sympathetic character compared to the other women in "The Assassination of Monica Lewinsky" (Monica, Hillary, Betty, Paula, Monica's mother Marcia).
** Juanita Broddick came across as this to some critics and fans as they said that due to some of her real life counterpart's despicable actions in later years (spouting dangerous anti-vaxxer conspiracy theories about COVID-19 on social media, attacking other alleged sexual assault survivors like Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and E .Jean Carroll and doubting their stories, even targeting Monica Lewinsky, etc.), the show trying to frame her as sympathetic came across as woefully misguided, with many saying they found it difficult to feel any kind of remorse for her in the show when [[spoiler: her interview about Clinton gets largely ignored and dismissed due to the public being sick of hearing about Clinton by that point]].