Roger Ailes Showtime Series 'The Loudest Voice' (2019)

Russell Crowe still gets acting jobs in the US?

Of course. He's your go-to guy for fat, dirty sleazeballs.

Didn't realize until I saw the credits that it was Sienna Miller playing his girlfriend Beth

that one guy doesn't even look like Sean Hannity

r3 How was it?

r4 I was shocked that they didn't cast somebody who looked and sounded more like him. Wonder if they will show Bill O'Reilly

r3 it was pretty good

Oops that was meant for r5. It was good enough for me to keep watching.

the first hour was mostly about how Ailes left CNBC and helped start Fox News in under a year

and it was Ailes idea to turn Fox into such a right wing network

I wonder if Naomi Watts and Nicole Kidman have been fighting because Kidman is playing Gretchen Carlson for that upcoming movie Fair and Balanced. Are they still friends?

We will probably see more TV networks and streaming services try to beat movies studios when it comes to "based on true story" content. Hulu seems to be working fast to make sure their Elizabeth Holmes mini-series is out before the Bad Blood movie adaptation.

[quote]Of course. He's your go-to guy for fat, dirty sleazeballs.

I agree. He'll probably play Steve Bannon in a movie or limited series years from now.

Crowe playing Ailes looks just like when Christian Bale had that Dick Cheney movie

R12 I thought the same thing. John Lithgow is playing Ailes in Fair and Balanced and I saw a pic somewhere online of him with a bunch of prosthetics and a fat suit.

We will probably see more stuff like this of actors donning age makeup/prosthetics and fat suits to play famous fat ass pervs or douchebags. It will also happen with infamous fug women. You just know some movie about Kellyanne Conway will go into production in a few years and the actress who plays her will be wearing a nose prosthetic and "ugly" makeup.

I watched the first couple episodes. Then I threw up and stopped. Better now.

Why is it these guys (Kenneth Lay; Joe Paterno; Epstein, bin Laden, etc.) all "die" before they have to answer questions or go to trial?

Do they all get cremated?

Just started watching. Am loving the guy playing Rupert Murdoch.

Fun fact: I once sat next to Simon McBurney at a play. He smelled AMAZING.

Naomi Watts was fantastic in this.

Sienna Miller as a heavyset Hausfrau fan of Hello, Dolly! instead of as a hot Fox News blonde works uncannily well.

This show receives mixed reviews but I can’t imagine Bombshell will be better. It makes for unpleasant viewing but it’s not excellent.

It’s largely to make Ailes look worse, but Rupert Murdoch is portrayed as, well, not warm and cuddly, but as someone mild and intelligent whose motto is “It’s Just Business”. He finds Roger Ailes’ racism and bigotry as distasteful and only calls him out when it’s supremely unprofessional, like insulting the second largest shareholder, a Saudi prince, or directly insulting Obama (“Terrorist Fist Jab”). His amorality is considered a better option than Ailes’ immorality.

Barry Watson is perfect as Lachlan Murdoch.

Laurie Luhn is an in house whore.

Crowe’s accent is wishy washy and he’s too vibrant and charismatic in the role. McBurney’s accent is far too ocker/working-class, in fact borderline Kiwi in places. Otherwise they’re both excellent.

Seth McFarlane’s genial, porcine quality is put to good use.

Sienna Miller and Naomi Watts are styled similarly so at first I thought it is was Naomi playing Beth but with a fake nose. Why don't these shows have credits with the actors names attached to their character names?! Also IMDb says Naomi is in all 7 episodes when she is not in the first 2.