Slow Burn

In the premiere episode of "Slow Burn," the series launches with an in-depth look at the scandal that was Watergate. Martha Mitchell, wife of Richard 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 take on a White House determined to hide its secrets.

Episode two takes un even deeper into the controversial events surrounding President Richard M. Nixon. In the wake of the Watergate break-in, Texas Congressman Wright Patman follows a money trail that seems to lead straight to the White House. What follows is an extraordinary game of political cat and mouse.

In episode three, the web around Watergate gets even more complex. A plane goes down in Chicago, intensifying suspicions of conspiracy in the Watergate case. Mainstream journalists and intrepid outsiders pursue the truth through Richard M. Nixon’s bid for reelection.

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 Carolina Senator Sam Ervin becomes the unlikely star. It's a case that will keep Americans glued to their television sets, with the fate of a president -- and possibly the nation -- in the balance.

In episode five, the Republicans and the Democrats struggle to work together under growing public pressure while an obscure White House bureaucrat named Alexander Butterfield, deputy assistant to the president, drops a major bombshell that may just alter the course of the entire investigation...and the fate of a nation.

President Richard Milhous Nixon and the office of the special prosecutor -- led Archibald Cox Jr -- face a showdown. Meanwhile, the country is watching, glued to their television sets.

"Slow Burn" is a docuseries based on the hit Slate podcast of the same name. In Season one, host Leon Neyfakh excavates the strange subplots and forgotten characters involved in the Watergate break-in and the downfall of a president…Richard Nixon.