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"Gaslit": More than Julia Roberts' show

Julia Roberts, Sean Penn, Dan Stevens, Betty Gilpin and more star in this political thriller that lacks cohesion

Salon · Apr 24, 2022

Who is in the Gaslit TV series cast alongside Julia Roberts and Sean Penn?

The programme follows the lesser-known characters caught up in the Watergate scandal

Manchester Evening News · Apr 24, 2022

Gaslit review: A sublime Julia Roberts can’t save new Watergate series

A plodding new series shows us the infamous Seventies US political scandal through the eyes of Martha Mitchell, wife of Richard Nixon’s attorney-general, but lacks any of the drama of the actual event

The Independent UK · Apr 24, 2022

‘They called her crazy’: Watergate whistleblower finally gets her due

Martha Mitchell, wife of Nixon’s attorney general who ordered the break-in at the scandal’s heart, was drugged and kidnapped

The Guardian - US · Apr 2, 2022

It ‘opened my eyes’: Rep. Jim Costa on the summer of ’73 - Roll Call

He stood in line to get a seat at the Watergate hearings as a young intern during a summer away from the family's California farm.

Roll Call · Mar 31, 2022

Trump calls for 'biggest protest ever in DC' if prosecutors investigating him do 'anything illegal'

‘For years, they’ve been going after my company, many years, using every trick in the book in an attempt to literally, if they can, put me in jail’

The Independent UK · Jan 31, 2022

Nixon aide lashes out at Trump over ‘stuff of dictators’ Texas rally

‘If thinking Americans don’t understand what Trump is doing and what the criminal justice system must do we are all in big trouble!’

The Independent UK · Jan 31, 2022

Trump pardon promise for Capitol rioters ‘stuff of dictators’ – Nixon aide

Trump makes promise at Texas rally on Saturday as John Dean says ‘failure to confront a tyrant only encourages bad behavior’

The Guardian - US · Jan 30, 2022