{"id":5238,"date":"2016-04-19T12:46:22","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T07:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=5238"},"modified":"2026-07-17T21:32:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:02:33","slug":"the-loudest-voice-russell-crowe-fox-news-rupert-murdock-hotstar-me-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=5238","title":{"rendered":"The Loudest Voice: An Unrecognisable Russell Crowe Plays the Most Toxic Man on TV"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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\nhere\u2019s a moment in the first episode of <\/span>The Loudest Voice<\/span><\/i> that\u2019ll make you think you\u2019re about to watch a start-up thriller. Roger Ailes, the now-deceased and heavily discredited former CEO of Fox News is seated in a meeting led by media mogul Rupert Murdoch, who is planning to launch a new TV channel.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n\u201cWho is your audience,\u201d Ailes asks, once everyone else is done speaking. \u201cEveryone,\u201d the room collectively responds. Makes sense. It\u2019s a news channel after all, reaching the largest possible target audience ought to be the goal. \u201cWrong,\u201d Ailes responds, \u201cYour audience is the Conservatives \u2014 the silent majority that makes up the United States of America.\u201d<\/span>\n\nIt may seem like a throwaway comment at first, expected of any morally-bankrupt businessman looking to make a quick buck. But over the next few episodes of the gripping mini-series \u2014 now streaming on Hotstar Premium<\/a><\/strong> \u2014 that small piece of advice snowballs into an evisceration of the most watched cable news channel in America, Fox News. Throw in a star cast that could easily be the line-up of the next Oscar favourite \u2014 Russel Crowe, Naomi Watts, Seth Macfarlane, Sienna Miller \u2014 and you\u2019re left with one of the most relevant dramas currently streaming online.<\/span>\n\n\"the_loudest_voice\"\n\n

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Throw in a star cast that could easily be the line-up of the next Oscar favourite \u2014 Russel Crowe, Naomi Watts, Seth Macfarlane, Sienna Miller \u2014 and you\u2019re left with one of the most relevant dramas currently streaming online.<\/p>\n

3dot Productions\/ Slow Pony\/ Blumhouse Television\/ Hotstar<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\nFrom #MeToo to the rise of fake news, the show deals with some of the most controversial themes of our generation. Each episode traces a recent event in America\u2019s recent history \u2014 taking you behind the scenes of the Fox\u2019s launch in 1995, through 9\/11, the execution of Saddam Hussein, Barack Obama\u2019s two terms, and the election of Donald Trump. We\u2019re introduced to these events through master manipulator, Roger Ailes, a power-hungry former politician, who takes charge of his news channel with an iron fist.\u00a0<\/span>\n\nAiles is a family man and patriot, who dislikes Barack Obama for no apparent reason (he insists that the staff call him Barack \u201cHussein\u201d Obama on-air). He\u2019s also revealed to be a misogynist with a history of abusing women, and recording employees. In one particularly hard to watch moment, post 9\/11, Ailes is seen asking the handyman to install a hidden-camera in the bathroom. Of course, the employees aren\u2019t made privy to this information.<\/span>\n\nAiles\u2019 paranoia and manipulative behaviour are brilliantly brought to life by Russell Crowe \u2014 so brilliantly, in fact, that it takes you a whole two episodes to recognise the <\/span>Gladiator<\/span><\/i> actor under the balding head and the pot belly. Crowe\u2019s ability to switch between charming gentleman to control freak in minutes is so commendable, you\u2019re never sure of how to feel about this supposedly all-knowing CEO.<\/span>\n\n\"tlv\"\n\n

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The Loudest Voice also tackles sexual harassment at the pre-#MeToo workplace.<\/p>\n

3dot Productions\/ Slow Pony\/ Blumhouse Television\/ Hotstar<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\nThe Loudest Voice<\/span><\/i> also tackles sexual harassment at the pre-#MeToo workplace. Gretchen Carlsen (Naomi Watts) and Laurie Lurn (Annabelle Wallis), are the most affected by this abusive behaviour, although a number of women eventually call the former CEO out.<\/span>\n\nNaomi Watts is exceptional in her role as Carlsen, a former Miss America, who is frustrated with having to constantly deal with her boss\u2019s harassment to pursue her own journalistic ambitions. Roger Ailes treatment of Lurn, on the other hand, is so enraging at points, it\u2019s physically unwatchable. Ailes wife Beth (Sienna Miller), meanwhile, plays the always supportive wife, who refuses to acknowledge her husband\u2019s abusive behaviour.<\/span>\n\n\"the_Loudest_Voice\"\n\n

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Ailes wife Beth (Sienna Miller), meanwhile, plays the always supportive wife, who refuses to acknowledge her husband\u2019s abusive behaviour.<\/p>\n

3dot Productions\/ Slow Pony\/ Blumhouse Television\/ Hotstar<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\nTowards the end of the mini-series, we\u2019re introduced to Donald Trump, who despite never showing his face, borrows heavily from Ailes\u2019 and Fox News\u2019 rhetoric to be elected president. That\u2019s the beauty of <\/span>The Loudest Voice<\/span><\/i> \u2014\u00a0it\u2019s part documentary, part gripping drama, and part true crime. To borrow from Roger Ailes\u2019 sentiment during the launch of Fox News, \u201cIt\u2019s simply great television.\u201d<\/span>\n\n\u00a0\u2014 If you\u2019re a fan of Russell Crowe or Naomi Watts, you should be binge watching <\/span>The Loudest Voice<\/span><\/i> exclusively streaming on <\/span>Hotstar Premium<\/span><\/a>.<\/span>\n\n