Friday's Trump impeachment hearing was a little bit Homeland, a little bit The Sopranos and a little bit Law & Order

The New York Times

"It had stories of international danger and violence, government backbiting, threats — and, at least virtually, a surprise (and perhaps ill-advised) guest appearance by President Trump," James Poniewozik says of the president tweeting an attack on former American ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch while she was testifying. Poniewozik described Trump's tweet as being "like a furious defendant jumping out of his seat to scream at the witness on a courtroom drama," adding: "It was a remarkable fourth-wall-breaking moment, the smartphone screen crashing into the TV screen. We watched a real-time meta-confrontation between a diplomat and her former boss, the most powerful man in the world, who has the enhanced ability to make people go through some things with a few angry taps of his thumbs. And it was one more example of the reality-TV president’s compulsion to both surveil his TV coverage and inject himself into it — his insistence on being the show’s star, producer and agitated binge-watcher."