Claire Danes and Dakota Fanning cast for Hillary Clinton series

[queenursula]

Claire Danes & Dakota Fanning have been cast as Hilary Clinton in different stages of her life in an adaption of ‘RODHAM’.

The series follows an alternate reality in which Hillary Rodham Clinton met and dated Bill Clinton but never married him.

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- DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) May 13, 2022

Comments

[ladychips]

has anyone here read the book? i trust the opinions here

[the_rocklobster]

i'm reading it now and enjoying it. i love sittenfeld's writing style

[bluestoplights]

The idea of graphic bill sex scenes...I have seen Enough

[rubie_dubidoux]

I mean, if you're a messy bitch who lives for drama then you'll find it enjoyable enough. I liked it! Does not mean I necessarily think it was *good*, but it's a page-turner. The author previously wrote a book about a thinly veiled fictional Laura Bush and I think she just wanted to do it again but since Hillary & Bill are such characters in their own right she probably figured a good story would be lost if she tried to change too much about them.

[applegreenzest]

The fanfic aspect is a bit weird but I really liked it.

[altheablue]

I read it with low expectations and found it unfairly well written and actually enjoyed it! Like a historical fiction with americana vibes and mild liberal feminism thrown in. Then I got to the present day part and a couple of things were in such ridiculously bad taste that it soured me on the whole book I liked in theory the idea of AU Bill Clinton as a villain figure but 1) not if you're going to have trump as a character and make him kind of a bumbling friendly adversary - yikes and 2) every mention about Bill Clinton being a creepy sleaze reminded me that he is in fact a creepy sleaze irl and his wife has enabled him thorough - and just like that I don't really want to root for AU Hillary either. I think I would've digested it better if the author had kept up some pretense and at least changed the names.

I want to try other stuff from this author because the prose really worked for me but I'm not in a hurry

[altheablue]

UGH I swear I put in a spoiler tag. What a way to find out the HTML spoiler code doesn't work on here