HBO has produced a new miniseries about the events that led up to what is known as the Watergate scandal, an event that caused then-US President Richard Nixon to resign in 1974.
In the series The White House Plumbers, we get to see how former FBI agent G. Gordon Liddy (played by Justin Theroux) and former CIA agent E. Howard Hunt (played by Woody Harrelson) do their best to protect Nixon and the Republican Party by attempting to cover up a break-in that was carried out against the Democratic Party’s headquarters, something that famously ended in a real mess.
HBO writes about the series:
Chronicling actions on the ground, this satirical drama begins in 1971 when the White House hires Hunt and Liddy, former CIA and FBI, respectively, to investigate the Pentagon Papers leak. After failing upward, the unlikely pair lands on the Committee to Re-Elect the President, plotting several unbelievable covert ops – including bugging the Democratic National Committee offices at the Watergate complex. Proving that fact is sometimes stranger than fiction, White House Plumbers sheds light on the lesser-known series of events that led to one of the greatest political scandals in American history.
-HBO
On May 1st, HBO and HBO Max will begin airing The White House Plumbers.
