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.