Two men, one election, and a federal bureau caught between them: The Comey Rule dramatises the collision between FBI director James Comey and Donald Trump across the 2016 presidential race and the months that followed.
What is The Comey Rule about?
Billy Ray's two-part drama draws on James Comey's memoir, A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership, to reconstruct the period when the FBI found itself at the centre of American politics. The first chapter follows the bureau through the campaign season, as decisions about an investigation touching a presidential candidate have to be made in public view and under pressure from every direction. The second chapter moves into the early days of the new administration, where the director's working relationship with the incoming president becomes the story itself. Jeff Daniels plays Comey as a man convinced that process and institutional independence matter more than any single outcome, while Brendan Gleeson's Trump is presented as someone who measures people by personal loyalty.
About the cast
Jeff Daniels anchors the series with a restrained, deliberate performance, and Brendan Gleeson takes on one of the most scrutinised roles any actor could accept. Holly Hunter, Michael Kelly, Jennifer Ehle, Scoot McNairy, Amy Seimetz and Peter Coyote round out an ensemble drawn largely from prestige television and independent film, which gives the supporting scenes enough weight to keep the focus from narrowing to the two leads alone.
Context & significance
Billy Ray, who wrote and directed both parts, has built much of his career on scripts about real events and the institutions that bend under them, and The Comey Rule sits squarely in that lineage. Released in 2020, the miniseries arrived while the events it depicts were still fresh in public memory, which shaped how audiences met it: most viewers brought their own reading of the period with them. It is best approached as one account, adapted from one participant's book, rather than as a neutral record.
Watching The Comey Rule on Ktime
The Comey Rule streams on K-Time with both a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, so you can hear the dialogue in Farsi or follow the original English performances with subtitles. Watching requires a K-Time account login; the Farsi interface makes it simple to find the series and switch audio and subtitle tracks from inside the player.