Slow Burn
Slow Burn

Slow Burn (2020)

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

8.0 (1 votes)
1 Season
February 16, 2020
English
Documentary War & Politics

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.

Creator

Gabriel Roth, Julian Turner, Banks Tarver

Network

Epix

Episodes

Martha
E1

Martha

Feb 16, 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 many to take on a White House determined to hide its secrets.

Losing Ground
E2

Losing Ground

Feb 23, 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 political cat and mouse.

Suspicious Minds
E3

Suspicious Minds

Mar 1, 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 reelection.

The Hearings
E4

The Hearings

Mar 8, 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 North Carolina Senator Sam Ervin the unlikely star.

Smoking Gun
E5

Smoking Gun

Mar 15, 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
E6

Massacre

Mar 22, 2020

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

Cast

Details

Original Title

Slow Burn

Status

Returning Series

Seasons

1

Episodes

6

Production

Left/Right