Monica - Part One
2015 · 10m · USA
Directed by Doron Max Hagay, Lily Marotta
Genres: dark comedy, drama
Tones: darkly comic, humorous, melancholic
Pilot episode of a darkly comedic web series imagining Monica Lewinsky's daily life in New York City in 2001, three years after the scandal, at age 27. We meet Monica trying to construct a normal civilian existence in the rubble of public infamy.
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The pilot — and the conceit alone is gloriously perverse: Monica Lewinsky as the indie-film heroine of her own deadpan New York chamber piece. Of course I'm in.
Treating one of the 20th century's most over-mediated women as a mumblecore protagonist with an enormous cultural shadow — that's a thesis, not a premise. Frances Ha with a tabloid ghost in the room.
Pilot of a darkly comedic series imagining Monica Lewinsky in 2001 NYC at 27 — the premise alone (one of the most over-mediated women of the 20th century as mumblecore protagonist) is a strong opening bet. Curious how the tabloid-ghost-in-the-room stays present without becoming the only thing.