We all died in 2016, and our punishment for our bad decisions is to relive the presidential election every single day, with the exact same cast of characters.
The streaming service Hulu released the first trailer Friday for its four-part Hillary Clinton docuseries titled, Hillary. (Although “docuseries” may not be the best word for it. “Hagiography” seems more appropriate.)
Director Nanette Burstein reportedly shot more than 35 hours of original interview footage with Clinton and used a total 1,700 hours of footage to create what CNN describes as an “intimate portrait of the one-time Democratic presidential candidate.”
‘One-time?’ Have we already forgotten about 2008?
“There was nothing off-limits,” Clinton told an audience at the Television Critics Association press tour.
There is no version of reality where that is even remotely true. I have no evidence to the contrary, but I will bet a very shiny penny that the notoriously guarded and controlling Clinton and her team absolutely did not give Burstein a free hand to explore every facet of the former secretary of state’s life, allowing the director to ask prodding and uncomfortable questions on the record. There is no way. Find me a person who believes “nothing” was “off-limits” in the production of this series, which takes a seemingly gentle approach to telling Clinton’s allegedly heroic story, and you’ve found a person who also believes Jeffrey Epstein killed himself.
Clinton said she hopes the series inspires voters to think about 2020 as “an election that will have such profound impact.”
“Take your vote seriously,” she said on Friday. “And for the Democratic voters, try to vote for the person you think is most likely to win — because, at the end of the day, that is what will matter. And not just the popular vote — but the Electoral College.”
She added: “I want people to take their vote really, really seriously. Because Lord knows what will happen if we don’t retire the current incumbent and his henchmen, as Nancy Pelosi so well described them.”
The Hillary docuseries is scheduled to debut on March 6.
My blessing to you is this: May you someday have as much success in failure as two-time failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
