Gaslit

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Season 1
  • Network: Starz
  • Series Premiere Date: Apr 24, 2022
Metascore
70

Generally favorable reviews - based on 29 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 22 out of 29
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 29
  3. Negative: 2 out of 29
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Critic Reviews

  1. Decider
    Reviewed by: Joel Keller
    Apr 25, 2022
    50
    Stream it, but only for the performances of Roberts, Penn and the rest of the cast of Gaslit. The series leans too hard on the farcical to help viewers come away with any real information about the Republican side of the Watergate scandal.
  2. Salon
    Reviewed by: Alison Stine
    Apr 25, 2022
    50
    "Gaslit" is a little dull, the light of its stars muddled under a huge cast and the heavy weight of history, which it reveals in uneven starts and stops. Over the course of the seven episodes given for review, it sparks the most when the minor characters are allowed to take the stage.
  3. Vanity Fair
    Reviewed by: Richard Lawson
    Apr 21, 2022
    50
    It’s intermittently engaging but never quite sensational.
  5. Variety
    Reviewed by: Daniel D'Addario
    Apr 21, 2022
    50
    “Gaslit” makes some clever choices — among them to not depict the president at all, at least in its first seven episodes. ... It takes nothing away from Roberts’ fine work to say that her scenes with Penn are not the show’s strongest. ... The show’s best scenes depict a couple on the other side of marital collapse: John Dean, the White House Counsel, and his wife Mo. ... John and Mo are, perhaps, the only characters we see who don’t know they’re on a TV show about Watergate.
  6. The Independent
    Reviewed by: Amanda Whiting
    Jun 1, 2022
    40
    Not even Roberts’s blistering portrayal of a woman terrorised into silence is enough to save a drama that is somehow both plodding and overreaching.