The Comey Rule Cast and Creator Hope the Showtime Miniseries Informs 2020 Voters

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorShowtime’s two-part The Comey Rule has seen by more that 1 million viewers combined for its linear debuts Sunday and Monday.

Irish actor Brendan Gleeson has been praised for his portrayal of Donald Trump in a controversial TV drama about the president’s election victory and early time in office.

The Comey Rule was bound to be divisive. Its main subject, former FBI Director James Comey (portrayed by Jeff Daniels), is a lightning rod for many on the left and right of America's political spectrum for his choices in the months leading up to and following the 2016 presidential election.

(CNN)One of best days Jeff Daniels ever had on a film or TV set was a day he was reliving what was very likely one of James Comey's worst. In Showtime's "The Comey Rule," premiering Sept.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmShowtime airs the battle between ex-FBI Director James Comey and President Donald Trump and the investigation into Russian election meddling depicted in The Comey Rule on Sunday and Monday. This after a ViacomCBS changed a shocking decision to relegate the $40 million star-studded series to January, Billy Ray holds court on the place both men will occupy in history.

is an unflinching, two-part Showtime series revisiting James Comey’s time as the FBI director leading up to the 2016 presidential election and what immediately followed after Donald Trump moved into the White House.

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is a harrowing, two-part Showtime series revisiting James Comey’s time as the FBI director leading up to the 2016 presidential election and what immediately followed after Donald Trump moved into the White House.

James Comey and others serving in the Trump administration.For Hunter, the project’s main draw was playing Yates, “who has enormous integrity, and brought an incredible positive, ethical energy and intellect to the Justice Department," she said. The two-part drama debuts 9 p.m.

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The Comey Rule operates from a false premise. The Showtime limited series, which will inevitably be watched through each individual's own political lens, coloring their interpretation of it*, dramatizes former FBI Director James Comey's memoir about his role in shaping the outcome of the 2016 election and his meetings with President Donald Trump in the months after the election.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV Critic“I imagine we will be on his radar and I think it is likely the IRS will start auditing my taxes, but that’s just a guess,” The Comey Rule director Billy Ray said  today on how Donald Trump will react to the upcoming Showtime event series.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVAlthough “The Comey Rule” is debuting just slightly more than a month ahead of the 2020 presidential election, creator-director Billy Ray did not make the series to change anyone’s vote.“The reason I did this was because I felt that the Russians had had a profound and unhappy effect on our political process in 2016 and I wanted the American public to know about that before they went to the polls in 2020,” he said during a virtual panel for the

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While the filmmakers behind Showtime’s two-part “The Comey Rule” have clearly overestimated the public’s desire for— uhhh, gestures in the general direction of anything and everything in entertainment vaguely resembling the Trump Shitshow, any ancillary offshoots (see the Fox News portrait “The Loudest Voice”) and generally, politics in the corrosive age of toxic politics— writer/director Bill Ray’s “The Comey Rule” does open up with a good, if simplistic, bit and intriguing question.

Chances are good that if you're watching Showtime's uneven but entertaining miniseries The Comey Rule, you're not tuning in to see if Jeff Daniels is able to convincingly play 6'8" FBI beanpole James Comey (or to marvel at Jonathan Banks' uncanny casting as James Clapper). No, you're probably curious about how very Irish Brendan Gleeson (the Harry Potter films, In Bruges, Mr.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticThe first character we hear speak in “The Comey Rule,” Showtime’s two-episode limited series about the unhappy tenure of the former FBI director launching Sept. 27, is not James Comey at all.

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trailer.The series is based on Comey’s bestselling book A Higher Loyalty and more than a year of interviews with a number of key players.The Comey Rule is stated as being ‘an immersive, behind-the-headlines account of the historically turbulent events surrounding the 2016 presidential election and its aftermath, which divided a nation.’‘The Comey Rule is not a biopic of one man, but is instead the story of two powerful figures, Comey and Trump, whose strikingly different personalities, ethics