In a fair and balanced world, TheLoudestVoice would win Russell Crowe an Emmy — just don't look to this miniseries about Roger Ailes for insight. Our review
this blustery biodrama starts with its main character’s death; the sound of pundits chattering away in the background is its equivalent of a Rosebud. We flash back to 1995, when Ailes was dismissed from CNBC regarding a Human Resources investigation. Luckily, this frees the mediato give Rupert Murdoch a 24-hour infotainment channel to rival CNN. But Ailes refuses to do just another “Clinton News Network.
By the time Ailes’ bête noire shows up in the form of Gretchen Carlson , we’ve already been battered by a lot of amped-up bad behavior and obvious signposts regarding the decline of civilized discourse. In the spirit of its subject, subtlety is not on the menu. It’s all frontal assault. If the miniseries can’t impress you, it will damn well steamroll you into submission.
The problem is, aside from the pleasure of watching celebrities impersonate famous Fox personalities, there’s not a lot of takeaway past the car-wreck fascination of witnessing one horrible man ruin lives and livelihoods. It’s a lot of sound and fury signifying one thing only, over and over again, all glazed with a tabloid patina of power, corruption and perversity. Better to view this as a star vehicle for Crowe, who digs into this grotesque role with gusto.
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