Remember that time, waaay back last October, when Bernie Sanders told Hillary Clinton that the American people were sick and tired of hearing about her damn e-mails? Yes, that was over a year ago—and yet those words are perhaps truer today than they ever were, thanks in part to the F.B.I.’s relaunched (and re-halted) investigation. Most of us probably already know how that ended, but just in case, Samantha Bee summed it up like so on Monday’s Full Frontal:

“James Comey’s flaming bag of October Surprise kicked off an edifying weeklong orgy of media speculation,” Bee said, noting that it wrapped up with a very anti-climactic climax: there will still be no indictment.

It’s no secret whom Bee supports in this election, so it should probably surprise no one that she defended Clinton and called out the media for fabricating at least some of the newly aroused suspicion around her e-mails. But after recapping all the reasons why the controversy over Clinton’s e-mails might be a bit overblown, Bee introduced the segment’s real highlight: a dramatic reading by Sarah Paulson.

Paulson is perhaps best known for her recurring turns in Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Story universe, but over on TBS, it appears she’ll have to work her way up from intern status on Full Frontal. Still, isn’t it kind of fitting that Paulson got a part to play in America’s real-life drama, American Horror Story: 2016 Election?

Ever the dramatic artist, Paulson really got to the soul of Hillary, as expressed in her e-mails. She painted an elaborate, if mildly forlorn portrait of a woman who is apparently unaware of what “you up” actually means in this, our year 2016. She nailed Clinton’s commitment to even the most banal of tasks. And, most important, she really drove home Clinton’s appreciation for the written word—especially when printed out.