What's with this martha fawning anyway? Or, watergate too? This is the 2nd show I know of in the past year that has focused on martha. Both completely twisted in perspective. Both fawning over martha as if she was some kind of hero of the era. What I remember, and this is just how the media portrayed her at the time, she was known for drinking too much, and a lot of attention getting gossiping. She was a minor player in the whole affair and nobody gave her much notice except when she would slip things into the rumor mill. And then it was like reagan said, "there she goes again". She was an intentional attention getter more suited to the current internet spectrum than the 70s. It's odd though that the media has her now played as a soothsayer of her age, but she was anything but in the 70s. Entertaining sure, but so was liberace who had probably as much credibility at the time. She was though the best example of the 'martha mitchel effect'. A disturbing cultural oppression on many women in the 70s and previous decades, on many class levels. It's an entertaining show but it's hard to take anything of the show seriously after spending many, many afternoons watching the watergate hearings. There's not one actor in the series that matches the looks or persona of the watergate characters. They're too cartoonish, exaggerated, under exaggerated from their real counterparts.
Review of Gaslit
