TV-MA | 4h 32min | Comedy, Satire, Politics, History, Crime | 01 May 2023 (USA)
The new 5-part HBO miniseries “White House Plumbers” (“Plumbers”) opens with this text: “The following is based on a true story. No names have been changed because nearly everyone was found guilty.”
At the end of each episode, different riffs on this same pithy, tongue-in-cheek commentary are offered up, reiterating (where none was really needed) that we are watching a satire of one of the most embarrassing, self-sabotaging events in the history of American politics.
Also shown in the opening are the names of the director (David Mandel) and the writers (Alex Gregory and Peter Huyck). Either together or separately, these guys were staff writers on “The Larry Sanders Show,” “The Simpsons,” “Seinfeld,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “King of the Hill,” and “Veep.”…