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White House Plumbers is an HBO show. It's available to watch through HBO’s linear channel plus its streaming service HBO Max in the US. Canadian viewers can find it on OTT platform Crave, while Aussies will require a subscription to Binge. It is expected to debut on Sky TV in the UK at some point in May.
No, White House Plumbers isn’t about the people responsible for unblocking the Oval Office toilet. It’s a satire from the people behind Veep and Curb Your Enthusiasm, with Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux starring as the titular “Plumbers”: the men hired to plug press leaks and secure Richard Nixon’s re-election. Yet their actions only hastened his downfall.
Beginning in 1971, this five-part political drama charts Hunt and Liddy’s illegal efforts to keep Nixon in office which eventually led to the well-known Watergate scandal. They’re tasked with intercepting confidential information and keeping it from their political opponents “by any means necessary”.
After a botched break-in of the Democratic National Committee offices, the perpetrators were linked to the President’s re-election campaign and Tricky Dicky’s plumbers faced jail time. And as for Nixon? The rest, as they say, is history!
This limited series is well-served by an excellent A-list cast, capturing both the dramatic gravitas and knee-slapping absurdity of the situation: Kathleen Turner (The Kominsky Method), Judy Greer (Halloween), Ike Barinholtz (History of the World, Part II), Tony Plana (Ugly Betty), F. Murray Abraham (The White Lotus), Domnhall Gleeson (The Patient), and many more, in addition to Harrelson and Theroux.
Follow our guide below and start watching HBO’s wildly entertaining take on a transformative moment in American history.
How to watch White House Plumbers in the US
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There are plenty of other big name shows on HBO Max including critically acclaimed series The Last of Us, Barry, The White Lotus, Insecure and Succession, award-winning animated movies from Studio Ghibli, DC Universe shows like Peacemaker, Doom Patrol and Harley Quinn, plus The Sopranos, Euphoria, and not forgetting Game of Thrones.
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