In February, the series was picked up by Starz, while both Edgerton brothers also exited the series. Hammer would exit the series due to scheduling conflicts in January 2021. Edgerton was also set to direct the series along with his brother Nash Edgerton. The series from Universal Content Productions was announced in February 2020, with Sam Esmail attached to executive produce and Julia Roberts, Sean Penn, Armie Hammer and Joel Edgerton joining the cast. Gaslit is a political thriller based on the first season of the Slate podcast Slow Burn. Brian Geraghty as Peter Bailin (based on Steve King).Keisuke Hoashi as Senator Daniel Inouye.Allison Tolman as Winzola 'Winnie' McLendon.The Daily Telegraph summarizes Gaslit as focusing 'on the Watergate characters who were right at the center of the scandal but who have faded from public memory' similarly, The Hollywood Reporter identifies the series as refocusing the events of 1972–1975 away from the white men in positions of political power to white wives, a black security guard, and Italian and Hispanic FBI field agents. His personal life is also complicated by his engagement and subsequent marriage to a woman described as a 'leftie' in the review by The Independent. John Dean, White House 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.

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. Gordon Liddy, who leads a gang of ex- FBI agents and Cuban exiles. Other perspectives come from the burglary's coordinator, G. Seen as a liability by both, she eventually blows the whistle on Nixon's knowledge of the activities of his staffer. 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'. He opens the series as Nixon's Attorney General. 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. Gaslit begins in early 1972 and follows the story of the Watergate scandal through the lives of several individuals on its periphery. It stars Julia Roberts, Sean Penn, Dan Stevens, Betty Gilpin, Shea Whigham, and Darby Camp. Gaslit is an American political thriller television limited series based on the first season of the podcast Slow Burn by Leon Neyfakh.

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