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Season 1 – Slow Burn

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An exploration of the Watergate scandal and how it eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.
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Slow Burn — Season 1

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Glen Weldon NPR 02/18/2020
Future podcasters looking to adapt their content to television would do well to follow Slow Burn's clean and simple example - heavy on archival film, with only a modicum of self-conscious visual filigree. Go to Full Review Daniel Fienberg The Hollywood Reporter 02/18/2020
The series takes a fittingly slow-burn approach that doesn't get us to the Saturday Night Massacre and nascent impeachment process until the sixth hour-long episode. Go to Full Review Joel Keller Decider 02/18/2020
If you're a fan of the Slow Burn podcast, or if you've never heard it before, you'll find out new information about Watergate during this docuseries. You just have to get past the aren't-we-clever podcast shtick first. Go to Full Review Tim Appelo AARP Movies for Grownups 11/22/2019
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hardy c @hardy00 02/25/2020 I have seen a lot of documentaries on Watergate but this one takes a fresh look at the scandal. The perspective it takes is different from the one we're used to seeing and brings to light a host of people who most accountings have ignored. See more Read all reviews
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Leon Neyfakh

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Episodes

Episode 1 Aired Feb 16, 2020 Martha Martha Mitchell, wife of Nixon's attorney general John Mitchell, makes a discovery that changes her life and threatens to take down a sitting president; she will be the first of many to take on a White House determined to hide its secrets. Details Episode 2 Aired Feb 23, 2020 Losing Ground In the wake of the Watergate break-in, Texas Congressman Wright Patman follows a money trail that seems to lead to the White House; what follows is an extraordinary game of political cat and mouse. Details Episode 3 Aired Mar 1, 2020 Suspicious Minds A plane goes down in Chicago, intensifying suspicions of conspiracy in the Watergate case; mainstream journalists and intrepid outsiders pursue the truth through Nixon's bid for reelection. Details Episode 4 Aired Mar 8, 2020 The Hearings The first televised soap opera debuts but it's Congressional hearings; as the public is on the edge of their seats, new evidence in the Watergate case emerges and conservative North Carolina Senator Sam Ervin is the unlikely star. Details Episode 5 Aired Mar 15, 2020 Smoking Gun Republicans and Democrats struggle to work together under growing public pressure while an obscure White House bureaucrat named Alexander Butterfield drops a bombshell. Details Episode 6 Aired Mar 22, 2020 Massacre Nixon and the office of the special prosecutor face a showdown and the country is watching. Details

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Slow Burn — Season 1

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Season Info

Network
MGM+
Rating
TV-14
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Release Date
Feb 16, 2020