David Bianculli

Gaslit tells the story of Watergate, focusing on Martha Mitchell, the outspoken wife President Nixon's attorney general. The Offer focuses on the making of the first Godfather movie.

The First Lady, which interweaves the stories of three different occupants of the White House from three different eras: Betty Ford is played by Michelle Pfeiffer, Michelle Obama is played by Viola Davis, and Eleanor Roosevelt, a very vocal proponent of women's rights, is played by Gillian Anderson.

61st Street, which premieres April 10 on AMC, is a detailed look at the intersection of crime, the police and the courts in Chicago. Like David Simon's The Wire, it looks at the underbelly of all these systems — exposing their weaknesses while showing how individual characters try to cope with it all.