Slow Burn
Slow Burn
TV ShowReturning Series

Slow Burn

Meet the insiders — and outsiders — who set the White House on fire.

8.0 / 10
2020
1 season
6 episodes
DocumentaryWar & Politics

In this adaptation of the award-winning podcast, Slow Burn’s Leon Neyfakh excavates the strange subplots and forgotten characters of recent political history—and finds surprising parallels to the present.

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Seasons

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

  • Martha

    1.Martha

    16-02-2020

    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 ma...

  • Losing Ground

    2.Losing Ground

    23-02-2020

    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 politic...

  • Suspicious Minds

    3.Suspicious Minds

    01-03-2020

    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 re...

  • The Hearings

    4.The Hearings

    08-03-2020

    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 No...

  • Smoking Gun

    5.Smoking Gun

    15-03-2020

    Republicans and Democrats struggle to work together under growing public pressure while an obscure White House bureaucrat named Alexander Butterfield drops a bombshell.

  • Massacre

    6.Massacre

    22-03-2020

    Nixon and the office of the special prosecutor face a showdown. The country is watching.

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