The White House Plumbers: What surreal (but true!) event is the title of the series about?

Available May 1 on Prime Video via Warner Pass, the miniseries White House Plumbers takes one of the biggest political scandals of the 20th century as its backdrop.

Serial robberies, the Vietnam War, fake mustaches and a team of plumbers… if these ingredients seem diametrically opposed, they are actually a recipe for an event that is as surreal as it is true!

White House plumbers, what are you talking about?

1971. The Pentagon Papers, documents containing classified information about the United States’ involvement in the Vietnam War, have just been leaked to the press. To protect President Richard Nixon’s reputation, the White House contacted two elite agents.

This is how E. Howard Hunt (Woody Harrelson), a former CIA agent, and G. Gordon Lee (Justin Theroux), a former member of the FBI. Making a shocking couple, they are given an office in the White House. To protect the secrecy of their mission, the two people responsible for leaking the Pentagon Papers have a plaque identifying them as the “plumbers” of the presidential palace.

One of their bold plans: Watergate, breaking into the headquarters of the Democratic opposition, listening to the opposition. But nothing goes as planned!

A powerful duo to neutralize all leaks!

It is from the duality of the two meanings of the word “leak” (leakage of water or information) that the nickname of this secret team arose. And this ambivalence between the importance of their mission and the comedy of their name fits the tone of the mini-series perfectly. Despite its political and historical framework, it is crossed by a sour and unusual humor, the main source of which are the characters.

Even the stereotypes of ex-elite agents with heightened patriotism, the two plumbers camped by two excellent actors are as irritating as they are amusing. A mockery that is only exacerbated by the absurdity of their mission: the botched heist, the mustaches and the wigs: everything is invited to believe the parodic farce, but the story is told White House Plumbers Very true!

“Names have not been changed to protect the innocentdeclares the series beginning to end, Because everyone is guilty!“Caught in the full Watergate infiltration, the opposition headquarters, the “plumbers” were arrested and confronted Richard Nixon: this is the Watergate scandal that leads to the resignation of the president in 1974.

Despite its pervasive humor, the series is still loaded with real historical references and will enhance viewers’ knowledge of the fascinating Watergate scandal.

A new episode of White House Plumbers is available every Monday on Prime Video’s Warner Pass.