

The Watergate scandal's weird cousins finally get their moment in the spotlight.

Season 1 • Episode 6
LatestNixon and the office of the special prosecutor face a showdown. The country is watching.
In this adaptation of the award-winning podcast, Slow Burn’s Leon Neyfakh excavates the strange subplots and forgotten characters of recent political history—and finds surprising parallels to the present.
Writing
Neyfakh's obsessive detail-mining makes bureaucratic minutiae absolutely gripping.
Direction
Archival footage deployed like evidence in a case you're desperate to solve.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Neyfakh originally recorded the podcast in his closet; the TV adaptation kept his narration but added $2M in archival licensing.
The Martha Mitchell episode directly influenced the 2022 film 'Gaslit'; Julia Roberts watched it twice for research.