I'm both a Jeff Daniels fan and something of a political junkie, and so I really was looking forward to The Looming Tower. It's an engrossing story, but for the life of me I can't understand why they felt the need to muck it up with soap opera-ish romance filler.Did we really need to know about everyone's affairs, or the budding romantic relationships experienced by on-the-go government agents? How in the world did the writers conclude that such fodder would be necessary in order to keep people interested in the events that led to 9-11? The history of this great American catastrophe really needed some romantic spice to keep people's interest? I don't know what the writers were thinking, but they took magnetic subject matter, and some terrific actors, and seemed to have made a mess of it with soap opera silliness.
Review of The Looming Tower
