, a five-part limited true-crime, historical drama looking back on the Watergate scandal and the downfall of Richard Nixon's presidency.
Starring Woody Harrelson as E. Howard Hunt and Justin Theroux as G. Gordon Liddy, the series takes viewers behind the scenes of the early 1970s scandal that rocked Washington, D.C.
and all the lives that became entangled in the effort to cover up the Nixon administration's involvement in the break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters.
According to HBO,, which isdirected by David Mandel and written by Alex Gregory and Peter Huyck, all former members of the creative team, «sheds light on the lesser-known series of events that led to one of America's greatest political crimes.»The satirical series «begins in 1971 when the White House hires Hunt and Liddy, former CIA and FBI, respectively, to investigate the Pentagon Papers leak.
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