I found Jeff Daniels, especially, in the lead role of James Comey a distraction rather than an aid to immersion in this drama, which is nevertheless worth watching to give further detail on the Trump saga and especially the story of Russian meddling in the USA. At this moment Trump is in Walter Reed hospital and from there, still trying to spin America and himself--in much the same fashion as he spun Jim Comey right out of the FBI director job he was evidently devoted to and apparently good at. The world may have been slack-jawed at Comey's unwise pronouncements about Clinton emails during the 2016 Presidential election but this drama shows pretty clearly why he felt compelled to do that.
Trump is the master of confusion and throwing people under the bus and this dramatization of Comey's book details how that was done to the director of the FBI in office when Trump took power. In the closing frames it shows how all the key staff working with Comey on the Russia investigation at the FBI were either fired or resigned (except for one, who retired.)
I find some combination of acting and the writing for this 4 part series just didn't work for me. The little I ever saw of the really James Comey in the media, he came across as a warm and real person, even in the midst of tumultuous events. Daniels plays him as a somewhat self-conscious and in-his-head figure, and is hard to warm to in the role.
I don't know why IMDb is insisting on titling this series "A Higher Loyalty" (former title The Comey Rule.) On the TV platform we are watching, and in current TV and online ads it is still called The Comey Rule.
Trump is the master of confusion and throwing people under the bus and this dramatization of Comey's book details how that was done to the director of the FBI in office when Trump took power. In the closing frames it shows how all the key staff working with Comey on the Russia investigation at the FBI were either fired or resigned (except for one, who retired.)
I find some combination of acting and the writing for this 4 part series just didn't work for me. The little I ever saw of the really James Comey in the media, he came across as a warm and real person, even in the midst of tumultuous events. Daniels plays him as a somewhat self-conscious and in-his-head figure, and is hard to warm to in the role.
I don't know why IMDb is insisting on titling this series "A Higher Loyalty" (former title The Comey Rule.) On the TV platform we are watching, and in current TV and online ads it is still called The Comey Rule.