Episode guide
Slow Burn: Season 1
6 episodes · first aired Feb 16, 2020
In Season 1, Watergate’s story unfolds as the contemporary political landscape plays along.
- 1 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…
- 2 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…
- 3 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.
- 4 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…
- 5 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.
- 6 Massacre Mar 22, 2020 Nixon and the office of the special prosecutor face a showdown. The country is watching.