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Welcome to our weekly column Cant Miss Episode of the Week! Every Saturday well be spotlighting a different episode of television from that week that we thought was exceptional and a must-see. Check back to see if your favorite show got the nod or to learn about a new one! Spoilers ahead.

American Crime Story: Impeachment opened with a flash-forward scene in which Monica Lewinsky (Beanie Feldstein) is confronted by the FBI and discovers that her friend Linda Tripp (Sarah Paulson) has sold her out. In this weeks episode, which aired on October 12 on FX, we finally catch up to that scene. What we werent prepared for? What came after it. The FBI escorts Monica to a hotel room to be interrogated, but when she makes things difficult for them, they end up holding her there for 11 hours. These federal agents, even after using every unethical intimidation tactic they can think of, are unable to break the 24-year-old terrified Monica, which makes for one highly entertaining hour of television.

The episode smartly frames this as a David vs. Goliath story. As small, tearstained Monica stands surrounded by agents in suits, the camera is wielded to put us into her point of view. It zooms in on an agents finger hovering over the switch hook of the phone, threatening to hang up Monicas call to her mom in case she says something they dont like. When Monica convinces them to let her call her mom back from a payphone downstairs in the mall, the camera focuses on the elevator button as Monica frantically jams it, on the security camera perched in the corner of the elevator, at the various agents stationed around the mall surveilling her, all while the scores swells, intensifying the moment, and Monicas heavy breathing comes through. This is the federal government throwing its weight around to intimidate a young woman, and the episode does an excellent job of making us outraged on Monicas behalf, especially as they repeatedly dissuade her (making it even seem like shes not allowed) to call her lawyer, all while threatening her with decades in prison. What Monica hasnt figured out yet, is that if they havent arrested her, then they have no right to hold her, and she can leave anytime she wants.

And yet, somehow special prosecutor Ken Starrs (Dan Bakkedahl) team has bitten off more than they could chew with Monica. Theyve labeled this sting Operation Prom Night in a case of you-cant-make-this-stuff-up, and its named so, as prosecutor Mike Emmick (Colin Hanks) explains, to signify half hour with a girl in a hotel room. Of course, it doesnt take a half hour, it takes almost a half day. Part of the thrill of watching this episode is Monica making the prosecutors and agents run in circles. She has some amazing one-liners, and Feldstein delivers them with a perfect zing. Shell call the police, if she doesnt hear from me, Monica says with a smug smile to prosecutor Jackie Bennett (Darren Goldstein) to get him to let her call her mom. She follows it up with, You gonna arrest me if I walk out of the room? in the very next scene.

Built into this melodrama is the hilarious absurdity of the prosecutors and FBI just sitting around, going shopping, getting a burger with Monica, while they wait for hours for her mother to arrive, because Monica has refused to talk to them without her. Well, if Ken Starrs team wasnt prepared for Monica, then they really arent prepared for her mom, Marcia (Mira Sorvino), who goes full Jewish mother on them protecting her baby. Shes happy to push Monica into cooperating, that is if she can get it in writing that Monica will receive full immunity. But they cant get Starrs approval on the immunity, because its after 11 oclock at night. The fact that these men were so confident that they could get Monica to roll over on Clinton (Clive Owen) in no time, that they didnt even have a plan for whether they could offer her immunity if she asks for it, proves their immense hubris and incompetency.

Perhaps the most satisfying part of the whole episode? When they finally get Monicas dad, medical malpractice lawyer William H. Ginsberg (Fred Melamed), on the phone, and he curses Emmick out for detaining Monica, and calls out the poor excuses Emmick is giving for why they cant get Monicas immunity in writing (Its the Ritz Carlton. Of course they have a fax machine). When he tells Monica to leave and go home, it is a triumphant moment.

See AlsoRoush Review: Impeachment Is Mostly Monicas Tripp-y StoryThe newest American Crime Story installment is an all-star retelling of the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky scandal from the womens point of view.

But, I have to admit, Ive been beating around the bush here. It doesnt matter if theyd gotten permission for immunity from the very beginning. Nor does it matter if Marcia had agreed to strong-arm her daughter into cooperating. Ken Starrs team ultimately underestimated Monica, because she was never going to betray Clinton like that. Maybe they and her mom could have convinced her to answer questions about the relationship, but she was never going to make recorded phone calls to entrap the President. In a show where everyone is out for themselves, Monica, even after everything, is extremely loyal to Clinton, and somehow, these prosecutors never considered that. If nothing else, you have to admire Monicas strength of character, and underneath all of the theatrics, its what gives the episode its heart.

Other observations we thought made this episode stand out:

The revelation that Linda went shopping after betraying Monica when the two met in the mall is the final nail in Lindas coffin for any sympathy she might have left with viewers.Cobie Smulders cartoonish portrayal of Ann Coulter as she sweeps in with multiple bottles of wine, proclaiming to her colleagues that are listening to the tapes in celebration of their successful coup, is the high camp this series, and really any Ryan Murphy project, needs.Monica saying thank you to Emmick when she leaves the hotel, because hes been playing good cop this whole episode, is outrageous.

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As with Robert Frosts two paths diverging in the woods, the covid pandemic has hit a fork in the road.

Back in 2020, when the virus first presented itself, anything could be forgiven. Trump could shoot hydroxychloroquine up his butt; Fauci could sneer at masks, then a week later demand that we wear 17 masks; governors could order everyone to stay home, while they cavorted at parties, restaurants, hair salons and protests.

The lies, hypocrisies and idiocies were all stuffed in our burlap bag, as we bounced along Coronavirus Road.

Then, in a triumph of Western medicine, A VACCINE APPEARED! Thats when our path in the woods diverged into the sane and insane.

Its pretty clear now that the vaccines work, with few side effects -- although our public health experts would really do us a solid if theyd stop lying about there being no side effects. At a minimum, the vaccines prevent serious illness and death. Theyre even more effective than the flu vaccine, and thats pretty good.

Between widespread natural infection -- something else it would be nice if authorities would stop lying about -- and mass vaccination, covid IS NOW OVER. It wasnt the flu in 2020, but it is in 2021.

Liberals sulked as people began getting vaccinated and living their lives again, but then seized on the delta variant to announce: Lets lock down again!

The very people demanding that everyone get vaccinated are the same ones telling us vaccines dont work all that well, so maybe wed better just keep wearing masks, quarantining, working remotely and staying home from school.

Do the vaccines work or dont they? If they work, well thank you to stop bossing us around now.

Going further into crazy town, liberals decided to pretend that Anthony Fauci was not an escaped mental patient.

Our most visible public health authority continues to issue lunatic pronouncements like a third world despot: The vaccinated must wear masks! Children should be vaccinated! Even 2-year-olds need to be masked! Everybody has to get a third vaccine shot! (That last bright idea led a couple of experts from the Food and Drug Administration advisory panel to resign in protest, followed by the panel unanimously voting to recommend booster shots only in certain cases.)

Apart from just coming out and telling us he doesnt believe the vaccines work, Fauci is telling us he doesnt believe the vaccines work.

This is the nut, you will recall, who knowingly lied to the public at the outset of the pandemic for what he, Anthony Fauci, in his sole discretion, decided was a higher cause. Without a scintilla of scientific evidence one way or the other, he condescendingly announced that masks dont work against covid -- simply for the greater good of preventing a mask shortage.

What if he considers it a greater good for Anthony Fauci to keep appearing on TV? Like an aging football star who dreams of being back in high school, Fauci longs to be in the spotlight.

Except we have vaccines now! So thanks, but weve heard enough from you, Fauci.

Also, we know things that we didnt in 2020.

We now know, for example, that covid is bad, but its not Ebola. Eighty-year-olds have survived it. Trump survived it. The 800-pound Chris Christie survived it. And that was before we had all the therapies we have now. Or, come to think of it, any idea what we were doing at all. (Remember the mad rush for ventilators?)

We know that cases are good; deaths are bad. The media frantically report cases only because their panic porn attracts readers, so who cares if its irrelevant?

As long as you dont die, which would be bad, a covid infection is natures vaccination shot! As multiple studies have shown, immunity from prior infection is stronger and more durable than that from vaccination.

Infections are especially good if youre already vaccinated. Then youll have super-immunity. You wont die of covid -- although you might die with covid, especially if youre old or sick or have just taken a massive dose of fentanyl.

Like George Floyd. Remember? He had covid when he died. But unlike Floyd, the media will broadcast your death as a cautionary tale to again harangue us to wear masks and get vaccinated. How dare you not get a vaccine and put the vaccinated at risk!

But the vaccinated arent at risk. You know why? Because the vaccines work.

We also know that covid poses virtually no risk to young people. We knew this early on, and for some reason ignored it, but by now the evidence is overwhelming.

Since covid landed on our shores, 95% of dead the U.S. have been 50 or older. Nearly 80% of the dead were 65 or older -- and not only are they heavily vaccinated, but they make up only 16% of the population. The 64.5% of the population under age 50 -- in its entirety -- accounted for only 5% of those who died from covid.

Combine the minimal risk of death to young people -- less than the flu during a normal flu season -- with what we now know about the strong immunity from prior covid infection, and, throughout 2020, we should have been putting little kids into giant, Japanese-size classrooms and encouraging young people to blow beer foam in one anothers faces, get drunk and make out with strangers. Our entire under-30 population would be immune.

Remember the college kid on spring break when covid first hit the news in February 2020, who had his life destroyed for nonchalantly telling a TV interviewer, If I get corona, I get corona? If only wed listened to him instead of Fauci!

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'Impeachment: American Crime Story': Looking Back on Matt Drudge's Role in the 1998 Scandal

While Impeachment: American Crime Story is largely focused on the key women involved in the 1998 sex scandal and subsequent impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton, theres one key figure in the story that cant be overlooked. And that is Matt Drudge, the creator of the news aggregator Drudge Report responsible for exposing the affair between Clinton and Lewinsky.

On the series, Drudge is portrayed by Billy Eichner, a recent newcomer to Ryan Murphys universe who previously appeared in two installments of American Horror Story. While the actor doesnt agree with Drudges politics at all, he recalls to ET how he became one of those people who ran home and checked my desktop every day for breaking news.

While Drudge got his start in the gossip business while working as a sales clerk at a CBS Studios gift shop, it wasnt long before his site gained popularity and became a must-read scandal sheet of the mid-90s. And not long after news of the affair broke, ET spoke with Drudge several times about the impact of his story.

Its gonna be a real scandal on the highest order that Americas ever seen, Drudge said at the time. It really is the first time the internet is breaking a story of this magnitude.

He alsoexplained how he moved forward with it, noting howNewsweek, which had long been investigating Clintons abuse of power, waited on publishing. When they decided not to run this story, I had an opportunity to move in. And they presented me [with] that opportunity. And thats what I did, he says.

And because Lewinsky lived in the Watergate Hotel at the time, Drudge was dubbing the whole thing, Watergate 1998, saying that this is a story that will turn Washington upside down.

Im taking on a media establishment that basically I think has not been honest with the American people, he continued, noting, and all hell has broken loose.

Thanks his popularity at the time, Drudge landed a short-lived Fox News show as well as a Sunday night radio program.But he always remained an enigmatic figure --especially when it came to his sexuality, which was an open secret. And in more recent years, hes become a recluse, reportedly only talking to longtime media friends like Ann Coulter (who is portrayed on the series by Cobie Smulders).

His relationship to his sexuality is complicated, to put it best, and that part I am very interested in, Eichnersays. If I ever met Matt Drudge, I would ask him if he is a happy person.

Impeachment: American Crime Story airs Tuesdays at 10 p.m. ET/PT on FX.

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How I met your mother was is a famous American series portraying how Ted Mosby met his wife, and he seems to be narrating this story to his children. The series was one of the favorites of the audience and gained much popularity, thereby demanding nine seasons from 2005 to 2014. The show was fabricated by Craig Thomas and Carter Bays.

There are several numbers of characters depicted in the series who are: Josh Radnor as Ted Mosby; Jason Segel as Marshall Eriksen; Cobie Smulders as Robin Scherbatsky; Neil Patrick Harris as Barney Stinson; Alyson Hannigan as Lily Aldrin and Cristin Milioti as Tracy McConnell as the major characters.

So where are the stars of How I Met Your Mother? What are they currently doing? Lets have a look here:

Josh Radnors role A Ted Mosby became headlines and was loved by all. He was seen in Mercy Street and Hunters after ending his former role. He was also seen in Greys Anatomy for a short time, as well as in The Seeker. The man also took part in a musical group but is now paying heed to write his second book named Contagiously Good, which is expected to be published in 2022.

Alyson, after ending her role as Lily Aldrin, was seen to be hosting the show Girl Scout Cookie Championship and Penn & Teller. She also was seen in Kim Possible, Abducted- tv movies; she also made a special appearance in Outmatched and Pure. She also played the voice for Claire Clancy in Fancy Nancy. She is currently busy with her two daughters Satyana and Keeva, and is leading a good life with Alexis Denisof.

After the shows end, How I Met Your Mother, Jason did not seem to be very much into acting. He was seen in movies like The End of the Tour, Our Friend, and Sex Tape of which he was also the director and penman. Segel was rumored to be in love with Alexis Mixter during 2014, but the couple did all they had this year, April 2021.

Neil has been a recurrent name since the shows end and was seen in A Million Ways to Die in the West, Gone Girl, and Downsizing. He became famous for his role in A series of Unfortunate Events and had a special appearance in Ghostwriter and American Horror Story. He will be seen in Matrix 4 also, so fans are ready. He has been married to David Burtka for the last seven years and has two twins.

Cobie Smulders appeared in Avengers: Age of Ultron, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, and Spider-Man. She is still now acting in several films and is a popular star in the film industry. Recently she played Ann Coulter in Impeachment: American Crime Story this year. She is leading a happy life with Taran Killam and their two daughters.

It can be said that almost every star of the show is doing well in their lives, and fans can watch most of their favorites in the current age as well. To know more such details stay tuned with us.

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Last summer, Kyle Rittenhouse showed up to a protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin armed as if he was going into a war zone. The then 17 year-old ended up using his weapon to shoot 3 people, killing two of them.

The teen quickly became a celebrity in MAGA world. Ann Coulter went as far as saying that she though he should be president. And lawyer Lin Wood quickly stepped in to take on his case.

Wood, though, did not last long as the lawyer for Rittenhouse and the split between him and the family was acrimonious. The lawyer is now suing to recover the $2 million he raised to pay for bail.

A letter read by lawyer Xavier Solis read, The Rittenhouse bail was paid by #FightBack Foundation, a 501(c)(4) non-profit, from donations it received, Wood told Insider Thursday in an email. Under law, the bail monies must be returned to #FightBack.

An account connected to the Rittenhouse family tweeted, Money makes people do silly things. While were busting our humps trying to raise money and see Kyle acquitted, Lin Wood is sending letters to the court DURING Kyles hearing to demand $2M in donations FOR KYLE be given to HIM. Lin Woodkeeping it classy as always.

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