Gaslit
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You know when someone throws out a question, and it confuses you because the answer seemssoobvious?
Why men followed Nixon is not a question that keeps me up at night we all know why.
So we finally see Nixon in this episode.
Like hes farting all over our democracy.
You know who would love this is my dad.
As all this symbolism plays out, a voiceover discusses the Nixon tapes and how two tapes are absent.
Nixon is nearing the end.
Martha is at the doctors office for a fractured wrist and is very, very alone.
She visits journalist friend Winnie atThe Washington Postwhere Winnie presents Martha with her finished book.
The publisher canceled the contract, but the book is done!
This biography would eventually be published in 1979, three years after Marthas death.
Martha is still living at The Watergate apartment, but she is falling apart.
Shes sleeping in her clothes; trash is everywhere; and shes still wearing her wedding ring.
There ygo, Martha.
Thatll endear your daughter to you.
This is an incredibly hard sort of thing to own up to, so good job, Winnie!
In a gas station bathroom, Martha takes at least three Diazepam.
When they arrive at Martys school, Marty immediately wants Martha to leave.
Martha is stumbling and when Marty calls her crazy, Martha slaps her, then starts laughing.
Winnie helps her into the car and they go to the hospital because now Marthas nose has started bleeding.
Its all not GREAT.
Meanwhile, the Nixon Boys are really getting theirs.
And by getting theirs, I mean theyre held in a minimum-security prison.
Theyre also digging an undetermined something with shovels and pickaxes, but they get to all hang out.
They also get to soliloquize about a billboard with Nixons face on it.
This is after Deans previous stupid statement, which is in the car with FBI agents Lano and Magallanes.
I looked at John DeansBlind Ambition: The White House Years.
I looked atAir Force One: A History of the Presidents and Their Planes.
I read Automotive Cushioning Through the Ages: A Review by The Molded Polyurethane Foam Industry Panel.
I couldnt find anything.
I even tried looking up the Russian word for Oceania along with Air Force One, but nothing.
Liddy is also called to testify against Mitchell, only hes been silent through all his summoned testimonies.
says he knows how to kill a man with a pencil and 2).
tells a story about eating a rat.
John Dean gets out of prison.
Martha is in the hospital.
When Winnie angrily asks who is giving her Diazepam, the doctor says theyre not for nerves.
Martha says its probably 65% gin (jokes!)
and that shell tell John when he calls her.
I mean, shes alone anyway, but at least she occasionally has her friend there.
Its a good point, sir.
Do you think having your spouse kidnapped, drugged, and abused also maybe destroys relationships?
Or is that just people like Martha?
No, youre right, this is definitely on her.
Her and her insistence on telling the truth.
As Nixon gives his resignation speech, Winnie comes to the hospital looking for Martha.
After some frantic searching, she sees her holding a baby in the nursery.
Marthas son is helping take care of her now (yay!
), so she has at least two people in her corner.
Our final scenes are a kind ofAnimal Housewhere are they now sequence.
Martha passed away at age 57 and is buried in Pine Bluff, Arkansas.
Mitchell spent 19 months in prison.
Dean and Mo are still married.
