{"id":1475676,"date":"2022-05-15T07:15:22","date_gmt":"2022-05-15T11:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1475676"},"modified":"2022-05-15T07:15:26","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T11:15:26","slug":"hulu-declines-making-tv-show-about-alternate-universe-where-hillary-won-2016-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hulu-declines-making-tv-show-about-alternate-universe-where-hillary-won-2016-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Hulu Declines Making TV Show About Alternate Universe Where Hillary Won 2016 Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhulu-declines-making-tv-show-about-alternate-universe-where-hillary-won-2016-election%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1475676&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>The streaming service Hulu has declined the opportunity to create <em>Rodham,<\/em> a TV series based on the 2020 Curtis Sittenfeld novel and adapted for the screen by Sarah Treem. But 20th Century Television will continue to shop the project which stars Claire Danes and Dakota Fanning playing Clinton at different ages.<\/p>\n<p>Actress Edie Falco portrayed Clinton in <em>Impeachment: An American Crime Story<\/em> for FX Network, which aired in 2019. But <em>Rodham<\/em> would approach the subject of Hillary Clinton from an entirely different perspective.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2022\/tv\/news\/rodham-hillary-clinton-claire-danes-dakota-fanning-1235266686\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Variety<\/em>:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cRodham\u201d \u2014 published in May 2020, and a New York Times bestseller \u2014 imagined an alternative universe in which Hillary Rodham Clinton met and dated Bill Clinton at Yale Law School, but never married him. Instead of the life Clinton has actually led, in \u201cRodham,\u201d she goes on to thrive as a Northwestern University professor, and launches an eventual presidential run in 2016. Real-world events \u2014 such as rape accusations against Bill Clinton, and Donald Trump as a significant figure in politics \u2014 also play out in Sittenfeld\u2019s novel, but in vastly altered ways.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Hillary Clinton would have been an obscure professor \u2014 perhaps at Northwestern but more likely at Bryn Mawr or Wellesley \u2014 and never sniffed national power if she had never married Bill Clinton. It\u2019s not to say that Hillary couldn\u2019t have succeeded in her life without Bill. But like most leftists and feminists, Sittenfeld fails to see the symbiotic relationship between Bill and Hillary \u2014 the couple \u2014 that made them an unbeatable and winning combination.<\/p>\n<p>In short, they were more powerful together than they ever would have been separate.<\/p>\n<p>The beauty of Alternative History in <em>Rodham<\/em>, is that Hillary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/culture\/21331112\/rodham-curtis-sittenfeld-fact-check-book-hillary-clinton-alternate-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">actually wins<\/a> the 2016 election. Also, 9\/11 never happened and McCain won the 2000 and 2004 elections. You can create all kinds of fantasies to justify your take on alternate history. That\u2019s why it\u2019s so popular on the left.<\/p>\n<p>As for showrunner Treem, we can expect a lot of gratuitous nudity and sex if her work on <em>The Affair<\/em> is any indication.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.primetimer.com\/item\/Hulus-Hillary-Clinton-alternate-history-series-is-supposed-to-have-a-lot-of-sex-it-doesnt-bode-well-that-The-Affairs-Sarah-Treem-is-involved-xXS69G\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Primetimer:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A Hollywood Reporter article last December accused\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.primetimer.com\/item\/Hulu-developing-Hillary-Clinton-alternate-history-drama-from-The-Affairs-Sarah-Treem-GdSDrL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Treem of creating a hostile work environment<\/a>\u00a0with sex scenes on\u00a0<i>The Affair<\/i>\u00a0that led to Ruth Wilson\u2019s exit. Treem\u2019s\u00a0<i>Affair\u00a0<\/i>past is important because she\u2019s adapting Curtis Sittenfeld novel\u00a0<i>Rodham<\/i>, which imagines what would\u2019ve happened if\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.primetimer.com\/item\/Ruth-Wilson-left-The-Affair-over-an-alleged-hostile-work-environment-with-help-from-Lena-Dunham-wMSn5b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hillary Rodham never married Bill Clinton<\/a>\u00a0and contains\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theattic.jezebel.com\/i-read-a-bunch-of-rodham-sex-scenes-so-you-wouldnt-have-1843545835\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">numerous sex scenes<\/a>. \u201cSpecifically, Wilson was asked to appear naked in scenes where nudity was unimportant to the plot; occasionally, those scenes struck Wilson as non-consensual,\u201d says Lauren Evans. \u201cOn top of that, extraneous crew were often on set during those shoots.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>We should pray that she takes it easy on including those soft porn scenes. Has she seen Hillary lately? Sheesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The streaming service Hulu has declined the opportunity to create Rodham, a TV series based on the 2020 Curtis Sittenfeld novel and adapted for the screen by Sarah Treem. 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