White House Plumbers 2023

This show is great - love the dead-pan comedy they've inserted - it just keeps the story moving along nicely. didn't expect it to be this funny.
8.5/10

I feel like I would've preferred this as a straight drama, rather than a black comedy; the style and tone of the show didn't really milk my prostate. It's not terribly lengthy, so there's that.

At the time of writing, this sits at 65%, and I think that's pretty spot on. Obviously I can't score halves so I'll go higher, but it would be a 6.5 for me.

The one-word-review of this series is "unbalanced".

The tone is wildly inconsistent and the final episode almost feels like it's from a different series altogether. I'm sure some of that is intentional in keeping with the progression from the early "fun and games" events to the seriousness of the aftermath, but they just overdid it. The first three episodes are playing up the ridiculousness so much that it's hard to really get engaged with the story, and you end up not caring enough for the final episodes to really hit as much as they should. Plus, the humor doesn't land as much as surely intended, so it really seems like a wasted opportunity to not have spent some time in the first episodes to ground it all more in the serious reality the series ultimately wants to end up in.

That said, the cast is really good and the inclusion of the two main characters' families was handled pretty well. With better groundwork in those first few episodes, this could have been really good, but as it is, it overall ends up just being fine.

i think they did a great job with the satire

[HBO Max] The tone of humor ends up highlighting how absurd some of the decisions made by the characters were, but sometimes it also seems to hide in a tone of satire the political conspiracies in a deranged government. Perhaps the comedy doesn't allow discerning to what extent the story is exaggerated or really was that chaotic, especially in the composition of Liddy's character as a kind of caricature. This feeling of not knowing what it wants to be ends up hurting the show so that it is truly enjoyable.

Takes a while to get used to the black comedy aspect and just as you’ve started to enjoy it it turns full drama. Cool little series overall, Woody is a legend.

Good solid start,I'm hoping remaining episodes pushes it up to a 8 out óf 10 show