Hillary should be president

Hulu presents a new four-part series about the woman who won the popular vote by nearly three million votes in 2016: Hillary Rodham Clinton.

She had kept her maiden name through her husband's Bill's first term as Arkansas governor starting in 1978, but received so much blowback that she went by Mrs. Clinton for his second term. 

That's the defining reaction to her entire career: Blowback. She's called one of the, if not "the," most admired and most vilified women in the world. Nanette Burstein's Hillary begins with the hour-long segment "The Golden Girl," which premieres on March 6.

Hillary herself is interviewed, and she looks comfortable interspersing her take on the 2016 election (she intuited that it felt "different") with her legacy of pushing boundaries as a second-wave feminist. She grew up a Methodist Republican outside of Chicago but found her feet as a liberal at Wellesley where she first made news for speaking out against the other commencement speaker, a legislator who advised the women to keep to their places. Her outspokenness and commitment to families continued into law school at Yale, where she met, but at first did not marry, Bill. He wanted to return home to Arkansas; she didn't.

As a young lawyer, she assisted with the Watergate prosecution, researching high crimes and misdemeanors. There's a lot about Hillary's history that has gotten lost, and this first episode calmly delivers her impressive resume of consistently advocating for women in the workforce, including herself, and educational equity for children. She still marvels that she's primarily known for using a private email server when she was Secretary of State, a legal practice that her predecessor Colin Powell did as well.

Her advisors are interviewed, who also remarked on how opponents dehumanize Hillary, how's she's met opposition at every turn, from her hair to her law career, without any pity or dwelling on it. We see her rehearsing an SNL sketch with her doppelganger, Kate McKinnon. 

She admits she's a good public official, but a less good politician because she doesn't want to lie or to shorthand her complex policies into soundbites. Her advisors note that these strengths of hers are also her weaknesses. The documentary is quietly necessary, and it's refreshing to allow space to unfold a layered woman's story in a climate when so many women are being silenced. 

Subsequent episodes are "Becoming a Lady," "The Hardest Decision" and "Be Our Champion, Go Away."

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