On Sun­day night, HBO aired its new film “Recount,” which delved back into the con­tro­ver­sial Flori­da recount that deter­mined the out­come of Amer­i­ca’s 2000 pres­i­den­tial elec­tion. Days before the film (watch the trail­er here) hit the air­waves, Char­lie Rose con­duct­ed an inter­view with Kevin Spacey (actor in the film), Jef­frey Toobin (Senior Legal Ana­lyst at CNN) and David Boies (who argued Bush v. Gore on behalf of Al Gore). In watch­ing the film and inter­view, my first reac­tion was to think: yes, it’s been eight long years, but it’s per­haps not been long enough. Per­haps anoth­er eight years is what it takes before polit­i­cal trau­ma can be trans­formed into pure enter­tain­ment. Or maybe it will nev­er quite get there. But that says noth­ing about the mer­its of the film or the inter­view below. If you missed “Recount,” it re-airs tonight on HBO.

A quick fyi: Sea­son 2 of the tele­vi­sion ver­sion of This Amer­i­can Life starts tonight at 10 pm on Show­time, and we’ve post­ed below the brief trail­er for the new show. Mean­while, the radio ver­sion remains the most down­loaded pod­cast on iTunes ( iTunes — Feed — Web Site). It has been that way for a long time. And you can always find it in our Ideas and Cul­ture Pod­cast Col­lec­tion.