Gaslit (TV series)

[Heroine of the Dragon]

Have you watched Gaslit?
Which characetrs are your favourites?

Gaslit begins in early 1972 and follows the story of the Watergate scandal through the lives of several individuals on its periphery. Nixon, for example, is rarely seen, while the main protagonist is Martha Mitchell—known as "The Mouth from the South" due to her propensity for talking to the press, often at inopportune times for her husband, John. He opens the series as Nixon's Attorney General. She is aware that her behavior makes her unpopular with the government and her husband, on one occasion telling the latter "get another wife if you want a silent one". Seen as a liability by both, she eventually blows the whistle on Nixon's knowledge of the activities of his staffer.

Other perspectives come from the burglary's coordinator, G. Gordon Liddy, who leads a gang of ex-FBI agents and Cuban exiles. He is also presented as a Nazi sympathizer—"an Apocalypse Now-style menace, a sage spouting nonsense who likes to hold his hand over a burning flame"—who presents the White House with a grand plan for the wholesale infiltration of the Democratic Party. John Dean, Junior Counsel, is at first pleased to be chosen by the President himself for his position, but becomes increasingly unnerved at the extent of the administration's involvement in criminality until he realizes he is being set up as a fall guy.

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslit_(TV_series)

[I REALLY HATE POKEMON!]

Never heard of it. I honestly still don't understand what Watergate was even about despite Googling it. Maybe my dumb brain will understand it regurgitated through TV.

[CaptHayfever]

^Nixon re-election campaign staffers broke into the DNC headquarters to plant wiretaps on their phones, under orders from the president, who then committed several more crimes in his attempts to cover it up. He was very likely to be impeached & convicted, so he resigned instead. Ford then pardoned him, & the acceptance of a pardon is an inherent admission of guilt.

And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number one!"

[I REALLY HATE POKEMON!]

^ I see, what were they trying to accomplish, if you don't mind?

[CaptHayfever]

Well, it was wiretapping, so probably espionage on the McGovern campaign.

And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number one!"

[I REALLY HATE POKEMON!]

Ah, stupid question then. Thanks, now I can finally get all those Watergate references I see lol.