Bombshell (2019) is a story based upon the accounts of the women at Fox News who set out to expose CEO Roger Ailes for sexual harassment.

The film provides a narrative of INSTITUTIONAL SEXISM, in the same way that we could look at other stories that are concerned with other institutional prejudices – racism, homophobia, Islamophobia etc. In other words, this film presents a version of the story of INSTITUTIONAL SEXISM and MISOGYNY. It suggests a link between the presentation/ representation of the female form and the ideas of a ruling patriarchy (Fox News, specifically Roger Ailes). 

Leading the allegations against Roger Ailes was Gretchen Carlson, a news anchor on Fox News from 2005 to 2016. Other women at the Fox institution such as Megyn Kelly came forward, giving their accounts. Ailes left his position at Fox News in July 2016. He passed away in 2017.