Picking up where it left off in its satirical take on the Watergate conspiracy, this second episode of "White House Plumbers" offers another chapter in the saga taking place right before the infamous Watergate break-in. It primarily deals with an incriminating note written by lobbyist Dita Beard (Kathleen Turner) admitting to a four hundred-thousand-dollar payoff bribe paid by International Telephone and Telegraph to the Republican National Committee for favorable treatment in a Justice Department lawsuit against the company. All set to testify to her involvement, E. Howard Hunt (Woody Harrelson) and G. Gordon Liddy (Justin Theroux) swing into action to get Beard to reconsider and back off her testimony from a hospital bed with a trumped-up heart problem. A side story involves Hunt's family travails with daughter Lisa (Zoe Levin), struggling with mental health issues and causing embarrassment multiple times. As I mentioned in my review of the first episode, I'm not keen on this particular take of the Watergate mess, I would have preferred a more serious treatment of the caper. Having lived through the era though, I pretty much got my fill of the ordeal as it was happening.
My biggest question coming out of this episode - Whatever the heck happened to the Kathleen Turner of "Romancing the Stone" and "Peggy Sue Got Married"?
My biggest question coming out of this episode - Whatever the heck happened to the Kathleen Turner of "Romancing the Stone" and "Peggy Sue Got Married"?
