The Comey Rule (2020)

With all eyes on America right now, the turbulent events surrounding the 2016 US election that brought Donald Trump to power come under the spotlight in the topical political drama The Comey Rule.

The four-part mini-series stars Emmy winner and four-time Golden Globe nominee Jeff Daniels (The Newsroom, Godless, Steve Jobs) as former FBI Director James Comey, Emmy winner and Golden Globe and BAFTA nominee Brendon Gleeson (In Bruges, Mr Mercedes, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) as Donald Trump, and Oscar winner Holly Hunter (Succession, The Big Sick, Saving Grace) as Acting Attorney General Sally Yates.

Based on Comey’s autobiography “A Higher Loyalty”, the series is written and directed by Oscar nominee Billy Ray, who scripted the six-time Oscar-nominated Captain Phillips, State of Play, Shattered Glass, Secret in Their Eyes, and The Hunger Games.

The all-star cast also includes four-time Emmy nominee Michael Kelly (House of Cards, Person of Interest) as FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe; Scoot McNairy (Argo, 12 Years a Slave) as US Attorney Rod Rosenstein; Gotham Award winner Kingsley Ben-Adir (One night in Miami, Peaky Blinders, High Fidelity) as former president Barack Obama; BAFTA winner Jennifer Ehle (A Quiet Passion, Pride and Prejudice, The King’s Speech) as Comey’s wife, Patrice; six-time Emmy nominee Jonathan Banks (Better Call Saul, Breaking Bad, Mudbound) as former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.

Also look out for Amy Seimetz (creator-director of The Girlfriend Experience, Get Shorty, The Secrets We Keep), Emmy winner Peter Coyote (The Disappearance, Perception), Joe Lo Truglio (Brooklyn Nine-Nine), Brian d’Arcy James (Spotlight, 13 Reasons Why), and Saturn Award winner William Sadler (Power, When They See Us, VFW).

AV Club says it’s “damned compelling… with a real-life tale that still beggars belief and a fantastic group of actors to tell it.” Slate says, “The Comey Rule is a horror film, and the monster is Donald Trump”, while The Age calls it, “a tense, dense and utterly riveting political saga that can only make you despair about the state of the States.”

“For the pro-Trump crowd, The Comey Rule is destined to be dismissed as more #FakeNews from liberal Hollyweirdos,” says Entertainment Weekly. “For everyone else, it offers the uniquely punishing experience of repeating history even as we continue to live through it.”