Slow Burn

This was tedious from the start. Why in the world do we have aging cheerleaders on screen? Unwatchable.

This review is based on Episode 1 which deals with Martha Mitchell. You may think you know who she was and what she did, but if you're like me, you're going to be surprised. They've done a lot of research and dug up a lot of footage, so the whole story is quite unlike anything I thought I knew. Production values could be better, which is the only reason it doesn't get a 10.

I consider myself a Watergate aficionado if there is such a thing. I lived through it all and in retrospect, instead of a grave threat to our constitutional form of government, it was more akin to the Keystone Cops. The series pays way and I mean way too much attention to Martha Mitchell, an almost comedic drunken nut case who happened to gold dig her way into marrying John Mitchell, a decent fellow with a weakness for women and liquid vices. Then there is Mabe, an aging California hippie, who had a political show on public radio and is convinced that Nixon caused E. Howard Hunt's wife's United Airlines flight to crash and kill her so she would not talk. Tin foil hat kind of stuff. On the flip side, a lot of good info on Liddy, Roger Stone, and John Dean. Maybe they should do another series on the way real professionals handled black bag corruption and chicanery: They could call it JFK And The 1960 Election, starring none other than Joseph P Kennedy as the Sevengali who orchestrated it all.

After watching Slow Burn I realize I knew very little about Watergate! This show has been an exciting education in not only Watergate but politics as well. Unfortunately I'm seeing a lot of Nixon in Trump. This is a must see!

Doing exactly what a documentary should do:

• Presenting facts as facts
• Presenting theories as theories
• Digging deeper, or differently, than anyone before.

If all issues were dealt with in a similar fashion - many of us would be more enlightened. The narrative keeps the Slow Burn vivid.

An obvious must se for anybody with an interest in; Americana, Nixon, Ethics or Politics.