The stakes of every VEEP episode are shame. What happens if people really find out what's going on? Oh no, that'll hurt us as opposed to I don't give a shit. Can you imagine a similar series 50 years from now about Donald Trump? This is almost 50 years. Yeah. And in fact, I actually think it's probably unfortunately the best way to do it. Everybody that's trying to do Trump while Trump is still Trump, just they're they're unwatchable because it's just too fresh and there's no perspective.
From the verdict in Trump’s sexual assault case to the Santos indictment and the Supreme Court saga, scandal is rife in Washington. Today we turn to the OG: Watergate, as examined in the new HBO series, “White House Plumbers.” Writers and creators Peter Huyck and Alex Gregory and director David Mandel discuss how the show compares to their last collab (“Veep”), trace a line between the blind allegiance to Nixon in the 1970s and the “Big Lie” of 2020 and contemplate what a Trump scandals series may look like 50 years from now would be like (think: Timothée Chalamet as Rudy Giuliani).
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