Jeff Daniels stars as former FBI director James Comey in Showtime’s two-night adaptation of A Higher Loyalty.
Emmy winner and impeccable TV bureaucratJeff Danielsstars as Comey.
“It’s the right thing to do.”
Credit: Ben Mark Holzberg/CBS Television Studios/SHOWTIME
If this is all beginning to sound like the TV series equivalent of a puff piece… enterScoot McNairy!
(Comey Ruleis nothing if not a prestige showcase for the world’s finest male character actors.)
TheHalt and Catch Firestar plays Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, a.k.a.
the man wrote a memo outlining Comey’s “mistakes” shortly before Trump fired him.
“Jim was always a showboat.”
For Comey, the Midyear inquiry, as the Clinton investigation was known, led to two career-defining/ruining moments.
That question remains largely unanswered, even as the miniseries transitions into the Trump administration era in part 2.
James Comey, both in reality and as portrayed by Daniels, is an extremely self-possessed man.
All these things tell us that something bad is happening, but we knew that already.
WheneverComey Rulehints at a point of view, it tilts pro-Comey unsurprising, given the source material.
He resents Comey’s success, his easy rapport with underlings, the devotion he inspires in his team.
As Trump, Gleeson arrives in part 2, appropriately bewigged and be-oranged.
He skillfully replicates the president’s meandering cadence, his labored breathing, his pursed lips and jutted jaw.
He interprets real-life Comey’s interpretation of real-life Trump’s intentions with suitable menace.
But again, who is it for?
For the pro-Trump crowd,The Comey Ruleis destined to be dismissed as more #FakeNews from liberal Hollyweirdos.
