White House Plumbers
White House Plumbers Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 7.4 | 7.2 | 7.2 | 7.4 | 7.7 | 7.5 |
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"Watergate retold as bumbling office farce"
This HBO miniseries retells the Watergate scandal from the ground up, following the two bumbling ex-CIA and ex-FBI operatives hired to run dirty tricks for Nixon's re-election campaign. Rather than a somber political thriller, it plays as dark farce: self-serious men with absurd disguises and worse judgment stumbling into one of America's biggest political crises. The tone is satirical and cringe-heavy, closer to workplace comedy than prestige drama, carried almost entirely by its two lead performances. It moves briskly across five episodes, trading historical weight for comic incompetence, which works better if you already know how the story ends.
the gleefully committed lead performances turning historical infamy into absurd comedy.
you want a straight, sober account of Watergate rather than satire.
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All Seasons
| Ep | Title | Rating | Yours | Votes | Runtime | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▶ | 1 | The Beverly Hills Burglary | 7.2 | 1K | 55 min | |
| ▶ | 2 | Please Destroy This, Huh? | 7.2 | 742 | 45 min | |
| ▶ | 3 | Don't Drink the Whiskey at the Watergate | 7.4 | 664 | 53 min | |
| ▶ | 4 | The Writer's Wife | 7.7 | 626 | 54 min | |
| ▶ | 5 | True Believers | 7.5 | 609 | 63 min |