The Loudest Voice Episode 1 + 2 - a review!
The new tv show from Showtime about Roger Ailes, the Chairman and CEO of Fox News and Fox Television Studios is on HBO Nordic, so I decided to give it a view. The show stars Russell Crowe as Roger Ailes, and it depicts his entire history of Fox News. From the humble beginnings to the 9/11 attacks and all the way up to his death.Keeping bias out of this review, I enjoyed watching the story unfold. I love Russell's portrayal of Roger, and I find it interesting to see, how Fox grew from a, let's be honest, amateur studio to the giant powerhouse we see today.
Nothing is left out. Every scandal. Every mistake. Every low and every high are in the show. Episode 1 starts in 1995, and it depicts several key points in Fox News, among those how Hannity was hired. The drama slowly unfolds, and it also shows how much of a mess Fox was in the beginning.
Episode 2 starts out on the morning of 9/11, where we see a fast-thinking Roger, doing what he did best - break the news to the people. The episode also showed the negative effect of that. Breaking the wrong, and often unsubstantiated news, like the time when we were told that Saddam Hussein had WMD's, and then Geraldo Rivera openly lied about him being in Tora Bora.
I look forward to the next episode, on the 14th of july.
So far, I give this series a 7/10. Room for improvement, but it doesn't need much to be a great show!