It's entertaining enough and it's reasonably faithful in its depiction of historical events. But I can't rate it higher than 6/10 because of the bizarre inconsistency in the characterizations of the two leads. On the one hand Justin Theroux's G. Gordon Liddy is a hyperbolic caricature of a bumbling, pompous fanatic. Most of the show's overt comedy comes from Liddy. On the other hand Woody Harrelson's E. Howard Hunt is a much more grounded and tragic figure whose greed, hubris and consistently bad decisions ultimately ruin him. It's as if the director told Theroux they were making a slapstick comedy and told Harrelson they were making a political and family drama and then turned them both loose without any idea of what the other was doing.
Review of White House Plumbers
