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  1. Aqua

    S01.E01: Will

    Also Sean Penn is one who likes to stretch his acting muscles and this was likely a challenging and fulfilling role for him.
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    S01.E06: Tuffy

    I think Sean Penn is a shoo-in and Julia Roberts probably too.
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    S01.E06: Tuffy

    I wonder if that part is true?
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    S01.E02: California

    I think he's the only good guy (i.e., repentant) person to come out of Watergate.
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    S01.E01: Will

    He is John Mitchell.
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    S01.E08: Final Days

    Are we to believe that all the Watergate convicts were conveniently sent to the same prison worksite so they could touch base and commiserate? Was Martha really allowed to walk into a nursery and pick up a random newborn to cuddle, or was that supposed to be her son's baby?
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    S01.E06: Tuffy

    Betty Gilpin killed it in that scene where she tells John Dean to man up. Nuanced and powerful and that closing line omg. Great performance this week. I don't get this whole John Dean characterization. I've seen videos of him and he is nothing like the goofy nerdy neurotic character portrayed in this show. Does the real John Dean (one of the only ones still alive) approve? I have questions: Was that supposed to be Hillary Clinton with Elijah Cummings in the Frank and Janelle bar scene? What was in the envelope Mitchell handed to Senator Gurney on the golf course? What is the real reason Mitchell wants Martha to have a closed hearing? He implied it was because with an audience they'd be polite and they'd only go hard on her in a closed hearing (not sure I buy that; people going in for the kill like to show off on camera), but it seems to me less about protecting Nixon and more about humiliating Martha by taking away her audience, which she craves--truly diabolical. Or is it both? Was Lurline played by Courtney Cox? I have to say, that forehead bit kind of fell flat, as Lurline's forehead was just as big as Martha's and neither of them are that big really.
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    S01.E05: Honeymoon

    This episode in my opinion strayed too far into farcical stupiddom. Magruder's wife gets into the FBI car and makes off with their pizza? Mitchell gets into a physical scuffle at his daughter's boarding school tour? I've come to expect, as I'm told, that some stuff is fictionalized, but now I'm beginning to wonder if any of it is fact-based. And they totally lost me when they started playing very modern music instead of era-appropriate.
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    S01.E05: Honeymoon

    Archie Bunker had a remote.
  10. Can someone please tell me what is the music playing at the end of this episode? It sounds like a '70s Broadway tune. The show is really stingy with the end credits, not listing much at all.
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    S01.E02: California

    Also I had thought the past two episodes that John Mitchell actually loved Martha but apparently not if he is behind this goonish stuff.
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    S01.E02: California

    I thought this episode was hilarious. The bumbling burglars were hysterical. This episode seemed to be played for laughs. But then the last part where Martha was restrained by the body guard -> I thought they were delving into black comedy. I thought that part must be fictionalized but then I read it's possibly true. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1975/02/19/102749845.html?pageNumber=18 I wonder if this will be a big part of the show. It will be upsetting if they injected this element but don't address it.
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    S01.E02: California

    I wondered if Dean approved of or was involved in the production of this episode? He is probably the only one of the whole bunch who's still alive.
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    S01.E01: Will

    Wow, I have a totally different reaction. I loved this first episode. I thought Sean Penn was fantastic. He was like a male Meryl Streep, a chameleon! And if I didn't know it was him I wouldn't know it was him. I don't know much about this era, don't remember these characters much, but I am interested in learning more. The Mitchell marriage is certainly faceted, I'll give you that. I think it's interesting to see a middle-aged couple being played with such a nuanced, multi-layered effect. This seems to be told from the perspective of John Dean. Did he approve or was he otherwise involved in this production? P.S. I thought the character who played G. Gordon Liddy was magnificent. What a diabolical character. He tones down his psychopathic affect and acts like a regular guy to get in good with Mitchell in the early part of the episode. I don't remember hearing he was such a nut job.
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