White House Plumbers (2023)

Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux play E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy, the operatives behind the Watergate break-in, as a pair of deluded fantasists, and the joke is how little the comedy needs inventing. Liddy's famous candle trick is true, and Hunt and Liddy really did sit in a nearby hotel room in radio contact with the burglars. The series admits to fictionalized and composited scenes: the failed second break-in attempt and the raid on Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist are changed, and Lena Headey's Dorothy Hunt gets a wartime past that is hard to confirm. Still the best way into how Watergate actually happened.