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Today, we finally got the TV adaptation.
Part two would come Wednesday afternoon, when Mueller was questioned by members of the House Intelligence Committee.
As a television character, it turned out that Mueller was, not surprisingly, neither of these things.
Mueller exhibited less personality than every single one of them.
He maintained, for most of both hearings, a face that was straight poker.
That was his job.
(Note: Many people have not been paying close attention to this story all along.)
Even if we had, however, it was still useful to hear the narrator confirm the details.
Offering no opinion is the last thing we expect from television in 2019.
We definitely expect it from courtroom scenes.
These holders of higher office often looked ridiculous.
They knew they were performing for the sake ofThe Mueller Reportspinoffs, a.k.a.
the coverage of the days events that will air all night long on Fox News.
[Screams with hands curled around her mouth: The report is impartial!!!]
Democrats also did their part to paint Mueller as a character.
If Mueller came across as any sort of character, it was more like a modern-day Sgt.
The country is so upside down that being Joe Friday has somehow become a liability.
Regardless of what anyone in Congress did, though, Mueller mostly came across as a blank slate.
Instead, he was the reliable narrator who refused to give the audience the tidy conclusion they desired.
In reality, the written Mueller Report, a.k.a.
But it was adapted into one of the most predictable TV shows of the year.
