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Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction in the first season of the White House Plumbers TV show on HBO. As we all know, Nielsen ratings typically play a big role in determining whether a TV show like White House Plumbers is cancelled or renewed for season two (in this case, it’s a one-season series). Unfortunately, most of us do not live in Nielsen households. Because many viewers feel frustrated when their viewing habits and opinions aren’t considered, we invite you to rate all of the first season episodes of White House Plumbers here.
An HBO satirical political drama series, the White House Plumbers TV show stars Woody Harrelson, Justin Theroux, Lena Headey, Judy Greer, Domhnall Gleeson, Toby Huss, Ike Barinholtz, Kathleen Turner, Kim Coates, Yul Vazquez, Alexis Valdés, Nelson Ascencio, Tony Plana, Zoe Levin, Liam James, Kiernan Shipka, Tre Ryder, David Krumholtz, F. Murray Abraham, Rich Sommer, and John Carroll Lynch. The story revolves around the Watergate scandal as President Nixon’s political saboteurs, E. Howard Hunt (Harrelson) and G. Gordon Liddy (Theroux), accidentally topple the presidency they were zealously trying to protect, as well as their own families. Chronicling actions on the ground, the tale begins in 1971 when the White House hires Hunt, a former officer in the CIA, and Liddy, a former FBI agent, to investigate the Pentagon Papers leak. After failing upward, the unlikely pair lands on the Committee to Re-Elect the President, plotting several unbelievable covert ops – including bugging the Democratic National Committee offices at the Watergate complex.
What do you think? Which season one episodes of the White House Plumbers TV series do you rate as wonderful, terrible, or somewhere between? Do you think that HBO should make more shows like White House Plumbers?