The Loudest Voice - US-Pace- Showtime (**Spoilers**)

JP Liz V1

Josh Charles is playing hubby to Gretchen Carlson.

The Good Wife vet will recur in Showtime’s forthcoming limited series The Loudest Voice, starring Russell Crowe as Fox News founder Roger Ailes.

Charles will portray Casey Close, the spouse of former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson (Naomi Watts) and a well-known sports agent. In the series — based on Gabriel Sherman’s book The Loudest Voice in the Room — Close tries to comfort his rattled wife and reassure her that her situation at Fox isn’t as bad as she thinks.

https://tvline.com/2019/03/21/josh-charles-the-loudest-voice-cast-roger-ailes-series-showtime

Agent Coulson

An all star cast lead by Russell Crowe & Naomi Watts.

Russell Crowe as Roger Ailes
Naomi Watts as Gretchen Carlson
Seth MacFarlane as Brian Lewis
Sienna Miller as Beth Ailes
Simon McBurney as Rupert Murdoch
Annabelle Wallis as Laurie Luhn
Aleksa Palladino as Judy
Barry Watson as Lachlan Murdoch
Josh Charles as Casey Close

This seven-part limited series is about Roger Ailes, the founder of Fox News. It focuses on the past decade in which Ailes arguably became the Republican Party's de facto leader, and the sexual harassment accusations that brought his career to an end.

Agent Coulson

Strong opening episode and you can see Crowe is going all out to win a feew awards.

Slydice

Might be worth checking out.

The first 3 episodes director has history on lots of shows including The Handmaid's Tale. Looks like she's the main director for the full first season of the upcoming Marvel TV Series: Falcon & Winter Soldier:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0804556/

JP Liz V1

Crowe reminding me of Christian Bale

Walter Bishop

First episode was a few days ago, very interesting. Crowe as Ailes is strange to see, but effective, good acting all round, definitely worth a watch so far.

is_that_so

Actually didn't take to it myself. Found it superficial and quite disjointed. Crowe is OK but it's absolutely all about him and thought there was weak characterisation everywhere else. Disappointed as Tom McCarthy (Spotlight) is involved in the writing.

Agent Coulson

Episode two is about 911 and the aftermath, I didn't realize how influential Ailes was in basically starting the second Gulf War.

Walter Bishop

I thought the second episode was very good too.

expectationlost

finding it underwhelming, seem to be a lot of time spent on Crowe's brooding, Murdoch is played a bit lame, was his voice ever that high?

steve_r

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Crowe reminding me of Christian Bale

yeah thought the same - this is on the list to check out

Agent Coulson

Episode 3 down and it really is quite scary how this one man was able to shape the mindset of America.

The power of TV really is scary.

expectationlost

scary because they put scary music underneath it?

markodaly

expectationlost wrote: »

scary because they put scary music underneath it?

Yeap, again this IS a TV show.

Of course, Ailes at the helm at Fox News did change the game in terms of filtering and delivering the news, to people who liked what it had to say. CNN et all have copied these tactics with mixed results.

However, the show appears to be losing the run of itself in painting Ailes as the worst person in American history. There is very little depth and nuance here. No real effort to understanding the man, just blunt instruments to hook the viewer in.
It's like everything bad about America is this man's fault. If only if it were so easy.

OK, the show itself is not going to examine the complexity of the financial system, worldwide terrorism, the changing media, and global trade but still, I guess a bogey man sells ratings (oh the pun). There are Americans out there who think this is a documentary!

Saying all that the show is good and has its merits, very well acted as well but it's as subtle as a chainsaw.

Agent Coulson

markodaly wrote: »

Yeap, again this IS a TV show.

Of course, Ailes at the helm at Fox News did change the game in terms of filtering and delivering the news, to people who liked what it had to say. CNN et all have copied these tactics with mixed results.

However, the show appears to be losing the run of itself in painting Ailes as the worst person in American history. There is very little depth and nuance here. No real effort to understanding the man, just blunt instruments to hook the viewer in.
It's like everything bad about America is this man's fault. If only if it were so easy.

OK, the show itself is not going to examine the complexity of the financial system, worldwide terrorism, the changing media, and global trade but still, I guess a bogey man sells ratings (oh the pun). There are Americans out there who think this is a documentary!

Saying all that the show is good and has its merits, very well acted as well but it's as subtle as a chainsaw.

Just like the Fox News Ailes created.

expectationlost

theres space in between his personal power plays and he infrequent meeting with powerful people to discuss his motivations

ps huge jumps in time nothing else happened in the bush years?

JP Liz V1

It starts on Sky Atlantic, Thursday September 5th at 9pm

Galwayguy35

Started watching it last week on Sky, thought the first 2 episodes were good so think I'll stick with it.

The Black Oil

I enjoyed it, via RTE Player. You could see the dominos being lined up in the later episodes. The guy knew how to throw a grenade or two.

KilOit

bumping this as with current news cycles it gives good insight into the American media, is very enjoyable watch and very much under the radar