The Comey Rule

I watched it. As much as I’m STILL angry at Comey I watched it. Jeff Daniels is very good, as usual. He got that stiff, blank sort of expression Comey does down pat. It’s okay. There’s a lot of people to keep track of and it runs through the basics pretty well. You can agree with what Comey did or not, but it does dig into the absolutely untenable decisions he had to make, and then went ahead and made the worst possible decision b/c he’s a showboater. Made my blood pressure go up, having to relive it, lol.

He’s pretty damn chilling. Menacing, like a mob boss. Thuggish. The makeup is good, and he’s almost got the lip/mouth thing down, but not quite.

We finished this series yesterday. Really thought it was very superior television!

Jeff Daniels was excellent as Comey. And Gleeson was terrifying as Trump!

This kind of reminds me of Brexit: The Uncivil War.

Both BC and JD played highly flawed characters who are very divisive and polemical.

They both also examine complicated political situations that are SO contemporary they feel like they are happening in real time!

The reception from critics and the public is mixed with some just shuttering at the "too close" reality of it all.

All in all I feel like the series did a very good job getting some extremely hard to depict concepts into the drama. And I found myself anxiously awaiting the next scene even though I knew full well what had happened!