Slow Burn

Synopsis

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.

First Air Date: 2020-02-16

Last Air Date: 2020-03-22

Number of Seasons: 1

Number of Episodes: 6

Networks: Epix

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Top Cast

Leon Neyfakh as Self - Host

Seasons

Season 1 (2020)

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

Episodes:

Ep. 1: Martha (2020-02-16)

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.
Ep. 2: Losing Ground (2020-02-23)

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.
Ep. 3: Suspicious Minds (2020-03-01)

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.
Ep. 4: The Hearings (2020-03-08)

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.
Ep. 5: Smoking Gun (2020-03-15)

Republicans and Democrats struggle to work together under growing public pressure while an obscure White House bureaucrat named Alexander Butterfield drops a bombshell.
Ep. 6: Massacre (2020-03-22)

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