There’s probably a pretty good feature film buried somewhere in those eight hourlong episodes, seven of which were sent to critics. The problem is that it tries to tell seemingly all the untold stories of the Watergate scandal at once, smashing them together into one fitfully amusing but wildly uneven miniseries.Ĭast: Julia Roberts, Sean Penn, Dan Stevens, Betty Gilpin, Shea Whigham, Darby Camp Adapted by Robbie Pickering from the podcast Slow Burn, Gaslit aims to shine a light on the untold (or at least lesser known) stories around the Watergate scandal, which is a fine goal on its face.
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What he doesn’t realize is that the series he’s on is in fact a history of those allegedly feeble masses, and not one particularly flattering to “soldiers” like him. If it weren’t already obvious which camp he sees himself in, the camera slowly zooms out to reveal him holding his open palm over a flame, in a display of machismo as useless as it is obnoxiously dramatic. Gordon Liddy (Shea Whigham) in the opening minutes of Starz’s Gaslit. It is written and rewritten by soldiers carrying the banner of kings.” So declares G. “History isn’t written by the feeble masses - the pissants, the commies, the queers and the women.
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