Does the world really need another series about the Watergate scandal? Necessarily! At least when she tells it as virtuously as “Gaslit”. Because the miniseries, which is based on the first season of the “Slow Burn” podcast, does not make the mistake of retelling the Wikipedia entry with new images, but instead makes supposed minor characters their heroes. “Gaslit” is related to the Watergate film classic “The Untouchables” like Stoppard’s “Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead” is to Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”.
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There’s the fanatical G. Gordon Liddy, who leads the break-in at the Watergate complex and is back home in the basement relaxing with Tristan and Isolde. There’s the perpetually wrestling lawyer John Dean (Dan Stevens of Maria Schrader’s “I Am Your Man”) who will become Watergate’s key witness. And there’s Martha Mitchell (Julia Roberts), the headstrong wife of Nixon’s Attorney General John Mitchell (hardly recognizable: Sean Penn). “Gaslit” is not only a gripping thriller that takes a fresh look at one of the biggest political scandals in US history, but also a great moral fable. (Starz play)
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