Slow Burn

Total Seasons :1Total Episodes : 6

In Season 1, Watergate’s story unfolds as the contemporary political landscape plays along.

Episodes(6)

1. 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.

Air Date : 2020-02-16

2. 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.

Air Date : 2020-02-23

3. 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.

Air Date : 2020-03-01

4. 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 the unlikely star.

Air Date : 2020-03-08

5. 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.

Air Date : 2020-03-15