Gaslit - Starz - (***Spoilers***) Julia Roberts & Sean Penn

Agent Coulson

Starts April 24th

The series is about the Watergate scandal and focuses on several untold stories, including Richard Nixon's subordinates, deranged zealots, and the whistleblowers who would eventually bring the whole enterprise crashing down. The story will center on Martha Mitchell, a celebrity Arkansan socialite and wife to Nixon’s loyal Attorney General, John N. Mitchell. Despite her party affiliation, she is the first person to publicly sound the alarm on Nixon's involvement in Watergate, causing both the presidency and her personal life to unravel. As attorney general, Mitchell is forced to choose between Martha and the president.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ-uyTbsWJw&t=13s&ab_channel=STARZ

The Black Oil

Didn't recognise Penn until his name came up.

JP Liz V1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118796999#Comment_118796999

He piled on the pounds

Agent Coulson

Starz released a few sneek peaks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZIGCNRd7Mw&ab_channel=STARZ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UqA2NBwbfc&ab_channel=STARZ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiMZ0U5zd0U&ab_channel=STARZ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVdt1gbarsI&ab_channel=STARZ

Agent Coulson

A very decent start to the show and Penn is totally unrecognisable.

Slydice

Well this show is very well made! Didn't feel like a scene went by where I didn't recognise a face! Sam Esmail listed as the excecutive producer in the credits and suddenly I was like... oooooohhhh! It made total sense then the feeling of the show.

1: I'm not sure the full story of watergate. Just that it's about wiretapping that went on. Looks forward to seeing it explored here. I'm guessing this

Spoiler Warning

Martha is gonna be, at least, partly involved in it.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118971663#Comment_118971663

Ah I dunno.. I could see a face there who I recognised but couldn't name until I came back to the thread here.

Some really good set pieces with some hugely talented cast put into the same scene and really knocking out some strong scenes.

The only flaw I could think of was that the show might suffer.. what's it called? people-not-interested maybe? .. the thing that befell Boardwalk Empire.

Slydice

2: Damn! Everyone is this show is like a recognisable face! That guy who hired the security guard, Bill Duke, .. he was (Mac) in the Predator film!

Well, this sure moved a lot faster than I thought it might. It's so well made too! That build up to the ending was something!

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That was hilarious when the "hippies" arrived! It totally lulled me into a false sense of nothings-happening BUT then they were the Vice squad and they had the cop routing down!

I'm not sure where the show is going .. I'm assuming this is just a warm up for the watergate that became the famous watergate. Maybe the failure gets the dude with the money to pay more or something

Slydice

3: This story is so bizarre but I really wanna know where it goes! Great performances in this one by Julia Roberts, Dan Stevens and Shea Whigham (Liddy)

Slydice

4: That episode felt like it had to drag a bit through the investigation to get across the events and story that were need. Then that ending though.. it really jumped back to life through the performances from Julia Roberts, Betty Gilpin and Dan Stevens.

I assume..

Spoiler Warning

something bad is going to happen to that bookkeeper. Feels like something bad happening to her is being flagged in advance.

Credits song:

Minnie Riperton - Les Fleurs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1kDd6yBQZ4