“But if every evil is justified in pursuit of some sacred truth, then laws don’t matter anymore, right? People don’t even matter. How can a society function like that? How can people live together without a shared understanding of right and wrong?” — Early whistleblower in Watergate scandal in “Gaslit.”
The Cabinet of Hollywood Stars playing political figures from the last half-century on streaming series continues to grow, from Jeff Daniels as James Comey and Brendan Gleeson as Donald Trump in “The Comey Rule” to Sarah Paulson as Linda Tripp and Clive Owen as Bill Clinton in “Impeachment: American Crime Story” to Russell Crowe as Roger Ailes in “The Loudest Voice” to Viola Davis as Michelle Obama and Michelle Pfeiffer as Betty Ford in “The First Lady”—and now comes the Starz limited series “Gaslit,” with Julia Roberts as Martha Mitchell and Sean Penn as John Mitchell. It must be a blast for so many A-list actors to don the makeup and the wardrobe, lean into the archives and create indelible fictionalizations of famous and infamous figures from recent American history.
