.loislane79 reviews HBO's cartoonish Watergate rehash WhiteHousePlumbers, starring Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux
, audiences are treated to a group of men trying to break into the Democratic National Committee offices in Washington D.C.’s Watergate Office Building; their aim being to help secure a 1972 win for Republican incumbent Richard Nixon’s reelection campaign.
The implication from this opening is obvious. It’s been over 50 years since the break-in, and series creators Alex Gregory, Peter Huyck, and director David Mandel now have a chance to lay out the details of the stupidity for a younger audience. But the series’ target audience isn’t them; it’s the ones who watched the events unfold in real time—or who at least learned about it through material like Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s bookor its film adaptation.
Liddy has always been the easiest to mock. He had what would now be considered a Ted Lasso cosplay mustache, but what was then probably considered more insidious due to his obsession with Nazi propaganda. “Lineage is very important to Gordon. Even more so than intelligence,” his subservient wife Fran says in one of the miniseries’ many cheeky lines of dialogue.
You could almost pity him, this tired and aging man who desperately wants a legacy. But even Harrelson himself doesn’t seem to want that to happen. So many of Hunt’s lines—be it to Liddy or to his three children who aren’t the golden child that is his daughter played by Kiernan Shipka—are delivered with aspersion.does tie in a lot of details that make this story even more insane.
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