There may not be a need for yet another TV series chronicling the events of Watergate, but at least Justin Theroux and Woody Harrelson change things up with some humor.
While just last year there was another prestige series about Watergate,doesn’t feel pointless. The show’s ensemble cast is electric, and there’s a surprising amount of visual style to boot. Theroux and Harrelson are both stellar, but it’s the show’s delicate depiction of their characters’ real-life buffoonery that will jolt and delight both history-class dropouts and Watergate buffs alike.
Liddy and Hunt, who were both former intelligence agents before they became low-level Nixon stooges—Liddy for the FBI, and Hunt for the CIA—were undyingly devoted to conservative American politics. In 1972, both men were called upon by Nixon’s Committee to Re-Elect the President, and asked to brainstorm intelligence-gathering operations. Eventually, they landed on a package of wild, highly illegal ideas that Liddy referred to as Operation Gemstone.
For all of Liddy’s real-life awfulness, he’s played by Theroux with the perfect balance of smarm and charm. Theroux is, simply, just great casting, threatening to steal every scene he’s in away from Harrelson, with his low, lilting transatlantic accent and foolishly swollen confidence. Harrelson, however, does provide the necessary grounding point, keepingfrom feeling too much like a satirization of history.
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