The Comey Rule

All truth about James Comey's dismissal

Biography Drama
English     6.9     2020     USA

Overview

The Comey Rule is an American political drama miniseries. James Comey, who was sincerely loved by the FBI and considered a professional in his field, was fired from his post on May 9, 2017, without prior warning. After that, Comey began working on his biography, paying attention to the events that caused this dismissal. Already on April 17, 2018, less than a year after the scandalous dismissal, Comey's biography A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership was published by Macmillan Publishers and sold more than 600 thousand copies. The book's title refers to an episode in which Donald Trump demands personal loyalty from James Comey, which is wrong from an ethical point of view and directly contradicts the principles of power-sharing in the United States.

The miniseries has a good cast, starring Jeff Daniels and Brendan Gleeson, who played James Comey and Donald Trump. The performance of both actors, as well as the entire cast of the series, deserves respect, but there is one serious problem — almost none of the actors are similar to their prototypes.

The Comey Rule miniseries covers events from Comey's appointment as director of the FBI in September 2013 to his speech before the Senate committee, which investigated the reasons for such a hasty dismissal in June 2017. The Comey Rule is almost three hours of whitewashing James Comey and an attempt to explain why the FBI director made certain decisions that are believed to have influenced the election results.

Reviews

Peter McGinn wrote:
I havent’ read Comey’s book but I followed the events described as they happened and I think it is a fairly accurate depiction of what happened. I wouldn’t be shocked, however, if there is a slight bias baked in to make Comey look better. We are all the stars of our own lives and it is his book after all. The show was somewhat entertaining and it connected a few dots for me, such as with the side story of the two FBI agents who the defeated president tried to humiliate on stage during his rallies by simulating what he perceived as a sex scene which, now that I think about it, might suggest why he had to pay for expensive prostitutes himself. I hadn’t been sure how they fit in with the overall arc of events. Of course, 30% of this country’s voters no doubt hated the five minutes they watched of this program, and I will say it is hardly a cinematic masterpiece or a story that really needed to be told, but like I said above, it did fill in a few blanks for me and saved me reading the book, so I guess I am glad I got to see it. So if someday the book is banned like Huckleberry Finn and other dangerous documents, I won’t have completely missed out on its message, such as it is.

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