The January 6 Hearings Miniseries We Deserve

when it comes to capturing American embarrassment in sprawling, wordy fashion, Adam McKay is on it. Naturally, he is already producing a feature on the 2021 insurrection. But if the January 6 committee hearings are any indication, the real show is unfolding now: the betrayals, the Fifth-pleading, the condiment-throwing. It’s been weeks of event TV that demand dramatization. Time to cast the inevitable miniseries!

STALWARTS

JEFFREY WRIGHT as BENNIE THOMPSON

JENNIFER JASON LEIGH as LIZ CHENEY

EVAN RACHEL WOOD as CASSIDY HUTCHINSON

JOHN GOODMAN as PRESIDENT TRUMP

SAGE VETERAN

SHELLEY LONG as ZOE LOFGREN

BREAKOUTS

AMBER RILEY as SHAYE MOSS

NAVIA NGUYEN as STEPHANIE MURPHY

RHYS COIRO as PETE AGUILAR

SCENE STEALERS

DREW CAREY as WILLIAM BARR

BURT YOUNG as JOHN EASTMAN

ANNA FARIS as CAROLINE EDWARDS

BOBBY CANNAVALE as ERIC HERSCHMANN

WORST HAIR SITUATION

BRADLEY COOPER as JAMIE RASKIN

PAUL GIAMATTI as RUDY GIULIANI

VINCENT KARTHEISER as ADAM SCHIFF

COMIC RELIEF

CHRISTIAN BALE as VP PENCE

RICKEY THOMPSON as RANDOM BLACK DUDE AT THE RIOT

RYAN GOSLING as THE DRIVER AS TRUMP’S DRIVER

RAZZIE WORTHY

MAYIM BIALIK as ELAINE LURIA

JOHNNY BANANAS as ADAM KINZINGER