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Critic Reviews
Apr 22, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Engrave an Emmy for Julia Roberts. She comes out blazing in this riveting series about loud and proud Martha Mitchell, the wife of Nixon Attorney General John Mitchell (Sean Penn) who found herself discredited as a delusional drunk for speaking the truth about Watergate.
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Apr 21, 2022iApr 25, 2022
Radio TimesApr 25, 2022
The TelegraphApr 25, 2022
Apr 21, 2022
Season 1 Review:
The series can be watched as dance, a pair of alternating actorly pas de deux, set off by ensemble pieces, and is completely enjoyable as such. ... Roberts and Penn do so well playing people in love, when they’re in love, that you don’t care who they are, historically.
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Apr 22, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Both actors [Roberts and Penn] are delivering true character performances, and they’re absolutely electric together. And while the primary focus of this darkly funny, broadly melodramatic and well-paced series is on Martha and John, “Gaslit” is equally involving when the viewpoint shifts to the myriad of colorful and often comically corrupt characters who deepened the Swamp that has yet to be drained to this day.
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Apr 19, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Setting a high bar for HBO's upcoming "The White House Plumbers," Gaslit looks at Watergate from the perspectives of several key players, deriving its title from the horrid treatment of Martha Mitchell. Losing a bit of momentum down the stretch thanks in part to its diffused storylines and semi-satirical tone, it's still an extremely well-cast look at the presidential scandal that made the suffix "gate" part of our lexicon.
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Apr 18, 2022
Season 1 Review:
One only wishes creator Robbie Pickering had found a better way to balance this trio of intertwined stories. For in trying to juggle all three, he’s created a lopsided triangle that can give you tonal whiplash when you try to follow along, the sum never really jelling any of its sometimes brilliant parts.
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Apr 15, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Martha's story is a fascinating one — the administration's early effort to keep her quiet led to a brutal imprisonment — and Roberts gamely plays her as an old-fashioned southern matriarch unleashed at the dawn of our age of paranoia. But the show also stretches to tell the way less involving story of White House Counsel John Dean (Dan Stevens) and his romance with liberal flight attendant Mo (Betty Gilpin).
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Apr 22, 2022
Season 1 Review:
The entire time I watched Gaslit, I ricocheted between thinking it was a thought-provoking series full of memorable performances and that it was a terrible series that too frequently felt like a Saturday Night Live skit. More often than not, though, it felt like the series may be gaslighting me.
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Apr 25, 2022
Season 1 Review:
"Gaslit" is a little dull, the light of its stars muddled under a huge cast and the heavy weight of history, which it reveals in uneven starts and stops. Over the course of the seven episodes given for review, it sparks the most when the minor characters are allowed to take the stage.
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Apr 21, 2022
Season 1 Review:
“Gaslit” makes some clever choices — among them to not depict the president at all, at least in its first seven episodes. ... It takes nothing away from Roberts’ fine work to say that her scenes with Penn are not the show’s strongest. ... The show’s best scenes depict a couple on the other side of marital collapse: John Dean, the White House Counsel, and his wife Mo. ... John and Mo are, perhaps, the only characters we see who don’t know they’re on a TV show about Watergate.
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The Daily BeastApr 25, 2022
Season 1 Review:
[Gaslit] would like to reconfigure this notorious historical saga as a case study in sexist marginalization. Too bad, then, that it lacks the focus, and perspective, necessary to make such a case, which might have been better achieved had the eight-installment affair been conceived as a two-hour movie, minus all the diversions that turn it into an aimless slog.
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Apr 22, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Stevens said that “Gaslit” means to tell the “human stories” behind Watergate. In nearly every aspect of that attempt, it fails. With Martha as the lone exception, the characters are cardboard cutouts or cartoon villains. ... Roberts simply feels miscast as Martha ... It exists to draw attention to itself but has little else to say.
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