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Gaslit’s Wonderfully Warped Watergate

Julia Roberts, Sean Penn light up a comic take on the dark Nixon scandal

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Peter Eisner
Apr 23, 2022
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You can easily split up the potential viewers of Gaslit, a fabulous over-the-top rendering of Watergate and the Nixon years, into two major groups: those who remember living through the Nixon era, and those who don’t. For me, the most remarkable aspect of this eight-part limited series is that I do remember those days and found myself laughing out loud.

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