Gaslit
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Do you ever get the sense youre watching two different shows here?
This episode highlights Liddy and the Mitchells in maybe the most uneven installment of the series to date.
Not that I didnt enjoy those parts separately.
But together they were, how do you say, real weird.
HELP ME OUT, SHOW.
Can you imagine if you were on a blind date and it was with Julia Roberts?
She looks like a goddamn angel.
She makes a wish on his eyelash.
Martha finds this placemat later and is nostalgic about it.
Mainly, though, its just like hey, heislike a rat.
Okay, unless the internet is deeply hiding this, this did not happen.
Nowshedidtestify that yearin a civil suit against CREEP, but that feels less dramatic, so here we are.
They verbally abuse each other and he admits he was responsible for her kidnapping and abuse in California.
Its all hurtful and awful.
He says hes going to take Marty, leaving Martha alone.
Soon after, Martha is interviewed by Barbara Walters, which did happen!
The interview goes poorly, and Martha is left alone at the end on an empty soundstage.
Now we arrive at Part Two!
Which is funny and weird and extremelywtfis going on.
Liddy writes letters to his wife, which he narrates in a Ken BurnssThe Civil Warcadence.
He talks about pain or fear or one of those things and gets himself put in solitary confinement.
While there, he hears a rat (hey, like the episode title!)
and finds rat droppings.
Now, this is awful.
So being trapped in a tiny room with aratand also youre G. Gordon Liddy inGaslitand therefore completely unhinged already?
Liddy takes apart some of his mattress springs and creates a rat trap.
So then Liddys like,ah, this is my test.
Meanwhile, Martha is standing outside the TV studio on the sidewalk, seemingly about to walk into traffic?
Why was this narrated by Liddy talking about Nazis??
He says their noble leader (you mean NIXON, sir?)
has also been devoured by rats (like the episode title!
), and their sickness has infected the rest of them.
He sees a small hole in the wall of his cell and starts screaming, I found you!
while picking at it.
Liddy creates a decent-sized hole and climbs halfway through when he sees rats.
He and the rats scream in each others faces while triumphant music plays.
I LOLd, I admit it.
But also WHAT IS HAPPENING?
Pick a tone, show!
Oh, also, John Dean went to prison?
He was kinda sidelined in this episode because we needed the scenes with Liddy and the rat shit.
Deans in prison and Mo is going to wait for him.
Martha tries to convince Mitchell to stay, but he leaves and takes Marty.
Rats (like the episode title!)
run across the sign as it fades out.
