HBO's Confirmation Is a Competent, But Unremarkable Docudrama

Confirmation, about the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill scandal, is a good TV docudrama on an important subject. There's nothing bad in it, nothing wrong with it. You watch it thinking, Kerry Washington is pretty good as Anita Hill, or Wendell Pierce looks convincingly like Clarence Thomas from a distance, or the filmmakers are doing ... More