FRONTLINE: the pbs documentary series not the flea medicine

i don't think i'll be watching that one. for the curious and non-googling https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/massacre-in-el-salvador/

i am however interested in the Pandora Papers segment that apparently also finally aired. I've been out of the loop lately!

Welp. I haven't made it through the USA and the Taliban three-parter but I am almost through the one about Clarence and Ginni and I am here to recommend for anyone who lives in USA and is subject to the rulings of the Supreme Court (aka everyone who lives in USA or cares). These people, my god. If you're not there for "how did they get here?" seeing his testimony juxtaposed with Anita Hill's and knowing one of them had to be perjuring themselves...and that it wasn't Anita Hill? Bone chilling.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/clarence-and-ginni-thomas/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJuRx1wARUk

One of the most chilling things was how everything -- everything!! -- comes or goes through Ginni. When the confirmation trials were going down, Ginni reported to John Danforth that Clarence was suffering with stress, "curled up in the fetal position" and apparently "a broken man" -- in an interview in the documentary he said "it's hard to see a man suffer that way" (or something to that effect) but

did he SEE it? no
it was reported by Ginni

they are truly a group project. in light of current circumstances, i really do think this is an illuminating look at the damage this type of marital partnership can inflict when they are fully coordinated. which they are.