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'Slow Burn' Captures The Drip-Drip-Drip Of Watergate

By focusing on figures who "played roles in the story that are larger than history remembers" this gripping adaptation of a hit podcast reminds us how slowly the Watergate scandal unfolded.
Podcaster Leon Neyfakh leads you through some of Watergate's lesser-known twists and turns on the EPIX series <em>Slow Burn</em>.

Slow Burn premieres Sunday February 16th on EPIX.

Slow Burn isn't the first hit podcast to be adapted into a television series, and it won't be the last. In this, the age of streams and verticals, of IPs and platform-agnosticism, we are about to be deluged with content that began life nestled in millions of earbuds.

That's perfectly fine, of course — provided the act of adapting a series from one

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