TV Review: The White House Plumbers was a bad idea - casting Watergate as a zany comedy

"Whatever else he was, Richard Nixon wasn’t an eejit. There is no way he could have observed Hunt and Liddy, as played here, and decided to hire them for sensitive projects."
TV Review: The White House Plumbers was a bad idea - casting Watergate as a zany comedy

Justin Theroux and Woody Harrelson in White House Plumbers.

I’d love to know what happened in the writers room for The White House Plumbers (Sky Atlantic, Tuesday 9pm, and NOW). Did someone say there’s no such thing as a bad idea?

And then someone else said why not make the story of the people who brought down Richard Nixon’s presidency in the early 1970s in the style of a comedy caper. And someone else said, yes, let’s get Woody Harrelson to growl his way through it too, that would be hilarious.

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