Like Vice and Game Change before it, the Nicole Kidman-starrer feels as if it’s favouring award nods over political impactYou won’t see adverts for Bombshell on the Fox News network, which is both unsurprising and part of the problem.
Bombshell details the toxic regime of Fox News boss Roger Ailes (played by John Lithgow), serial abuser of both female journalists and news journalism itself, though the focus is on the women who brought him down, played by Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman and Margot Robbie.
It is a story for our #MeToo/fake news times, but Bombshell is unlikely to live up to its title in terms of real-world impact.
Fox remains the Us’s most watched cable news network.
Last year it drew its largest audience ever.Bombshell is the latest in a series of films and TV shows targeting the Murdoch empire.
Already last year we had The Loudest Voice,
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