The saying goes that history repeats itself as tragedy, then as farce. An intertitle then informs us this was actually the second attempt of four. The show opens with a bait-and-switch: We believe we’re watching the fateful break-in, only for the would-be masterminds to realize they have the wrong tools. Gordon Liddy ( Justin Theroux), comrades in arms whose names are as similar as their right-wing ideology. While grating as a lecture, “White House Plumbers” works better as a dual character study of E. “If all I’ve done is undermine the average American’s faith in government,” he says, “that will pay dividends for the Republican Party far into the future.” You can hear the high umbrage and 20/20 hindsight in one Watergate conspirator’s look back on his public disgrace. This only adds to the sense that the show’s true, unseen subject is less Nixon than Donald Trump, a spiritual successor whose administration occasioned a flurry of projects now arriving past their moment of peak relevance. As in “Veep,” the president at the center of “White House Plumbers” is never portrayed on screen outside a handful of news clips. Like “Gaslit,” the Starz series led by Julia Roberts and Sean Penn, “White House Plumbers” has a distinct whiff of historical hangover. Urn:oclc:877046228 Scandate 20090814185344 Scanner latter podcast, which outlined the series of events from the attempted bugging of the DNC in 1972 to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974, was already adapted into a TV show last year. OL2437710W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 80.62 Pages 164 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1850891966
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