Below is my ranking of the episodes from "GASLIT", the STARZ Channel's 2022 adaptation of Season One of Leon Neyfakh's podcast called "Slow Burn", which discussed the Watergate scandal. Created by Robbie Pickering and directed by Matt Ross, the limited series starred Julia Roberts, Sean Penn and Dan Stevens:
RANKING OF "GASLIT" (2022) EPISODES
1. (1.03) "King George" - While Attorney General John Mitchell and his subordinates struggle to manage the Watergate Hotel cover-up, his wife Martha Mitchell finds herself in a dangerous situation at a California hotel. White House Counsel John Dean puts his relationship with Maureen "Mo" Kane on the back-burner.
2. (1.07) "Year of the Rat" - All hell breaks loose between Martha and John surrounding her decision to testify at the Watergate House Committee. Dean is surprised by a new legal development as convicted White House plumber G. Gordon Liddy faces his own trial in solitary confinement.
3. (1.05) "Honeymoon" - Martha finally speaks out to the media, putting a strain on her marriage. The F.B.I. comes closer to the real story behind Watergate. And Dean is forced to come clean to Mo during their Camp David honeymoon.
4. (1.02) "California" - Martha and John rekindle their love - and their power-couple working relationship at a Nixon campaign event in California. Liddy, E. Howard Hunt and their team bungle the break-in at the Watergate Hotel.
5. (1.01) "Will" - Martha struggles to balance the demands of Nixon's re-election campaign and her marriage. Dean's ambition as White House Counsel is tested when he is unknowingly drawn into a re-election campaign conspiracy for President Nixon.
6. (1.08) "Final Days" - During the last days of the Nixon Administration, Martha struggles to keep her family together in the midst of her decline.
7. (1.07) "Tuffy" - After losing his job as a security guard at the Watergate Hotel, struggles with his newfound fame as the man who had stumbled across the break-in. Martha returns to her Arkansas hometown,
while Dean testifies in the Senate.
8. (1.04) "Malum in se" - Martha and John try to enjoy a new life away from politics, but her memories of what happened to her in California continue to trouble the former. At the Republican National Convention, John Dean has a hard time moving on from his breakup with Mo.
RANKING OF "GASLIT" (2022) EPISODES
1. (1.03) "King George" - While Attorney General John Mitchell and his subordinates struggle to manage the Watergate Hotel cover-up, his wife Martha Mitchell finds herself in a dangerous situation at a California hotel. White House Counsel John Dean puts his relationship with Maureen "Mo" Kane on the back-burner.
2. (1.07) "Year of the Rat" - All hell breaks loose between Martha and John surrounding her decision to testify at the Watergate House Committee. Dean is surprised by a new legal development as convicted White House plumber G. Gordon Liddy faces his own trial in solitary confinement.
3. (1.05) "Honeymoon" - Martha finally speaks out to the media, putting a strain on her marriage. The F.B.I. comes closer to the real story behind Watergate. And Dean is forced to come clean to Mo during their Camp David honeymoon.
4. (1.02) "California" - Martha and John rekindle their love - and their power-couple working relationship at a Nixon campaign event in California. Liddy, E. Howard Hunt and their team bungle the break-in at the Watergate Hotel.
5. (1.01) "Will" - Martha struggles to balance the demands of Nixon's re-election campaign and her marriage. Dean's ambition as White House Counsel is tested when he is unknowingly drawn into a re-election campaign conspiracy for President Nixon.
6. (1.08) "Final Days" - During the last days of the Nixon Administration, Martha struggles to keep her family together in the midst of her decline.
7. (1.07) "Tuffy" - After losing his job as a security guard at the Watergate Hotel, struggles with his newfound fame as the man who had stumbled across the break-in. Martha returns to her Arkansas hometown,
while Dean testifies in the Senate.
8. (1.04) "Malum in se" - Martha and John try to enjoy a new life away from politics, but her memories of what happened to her in California continue to trouble the former. At the Republican National Convention, John Dean has a hard time moving on from his breakup with Mo.
