Many shows have including storylines inspired by the MeToo movement, but “The Loudest Voice” (following the Roger Ailes saga) is the first major scripted project to dramatize one of the real-life cases that helped spark a cultural reckoning
While numerous TV shows have crafted fictional story lines inspired by the #MeToo movement, “The Loudest Voice” is the first major scripted project to dramatize one of the. It is also a fact-based work of entertainment that aims to turn the mundane ingredients of TV news production — graphic packages and news tickers — into high drama, and is critical of a network that, in the view of its detractors, has eschewed journalism for ideological spin.
It helped that key creatives on the series had experience with controversial subject matter. Oscar-winning “Spotlight” filmmaker Tom McCarthy co-wrote the pilot episode with Sherman and serves as an executive producer, while “The Handmaid’s Tale” director Kari Skogland helmed three installments, including the premiere. Showrunner Alex Metcalf was a writer-producer on the caustic reality TV satire “UnREAL.
As played by Crowe, Ailes is a charismatic but abrasive personality with a streak of wild paranoia and a penchant for inflammatory remarks. Skogland, who is also an executive producer, worked closely with Crowe, “making sure the character had dignity and we weren’t making him a twirly mustache villain,” she said. “It was very important to have a balanced perspective. You present the characters with their flaws and their foibles, and let the audience decided how they relate to that character.
But in the writers’ room for “The Loudest Voice,” events were compressed and chronologies shuffled for the sake of the narrative. Further complicating the process, some of those events involved Sherman himself, who is a character in the series, played by Fran Kranz. Sherman pointed to a scene from the second episode, set on 9/11 — a pivotal turning point in the history of Fox News. In the series, Rupert Murdoch spends the night at Ailes’ house because the city is shut down, and the two men have a conversation about how the network will respond to the terrorist attacks. In reality, Sherman explained, the sleepover happened, but not until two years later, during the blackout of 2003.
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