White House Plumbers review: Woody Harrelson is terrific company but fails to lift buddy comedy out of Watergate fatigue

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The 1972 burglary of the Democratic National Committee offices in the Watergate building brought down a president but, just as importantly, sparked a thousand dramatisations, from All the President’s Men to Frost/Nixon, and now a lavish HBO comedy-drama airing on Sky Atlantic, White House Plumbers. The excellent cast is rounded out by a smorgasbord of accomplished character actors, like Judy Greer as Liddy’s dippy wife, and Ike Barinholtz as Jeb Magruder, the plumbers’ handler in the White House. You might be wondering why, with a cast list to rival The White Lotus or Big Little Lies, White House Plumbers has arrived under the radar, like a group of Cubans breaking into a commercial office block. “I am deadly serious.” But White House Plumbers is not deadly serious.