george smythe

This show is typical of most HBO documentaries. Highly dramatized, highly edited, a combination of mocumentary, and pseudo- reality show. What I am seeing in this show is typical of the “ me too” movement… people who have made the decision to engage in a “ casting couch session” to get ahead in Hollywood (no pun intended). When things didn’t go the way they thought they should, they now cry foul. So here they are trying to get their fifteen minutes of fame at the expense of Kevin Spacey. It is obvious that each one of them knew what they were doing when they decided to get up close and personal with him. I do not think anyone on this show can claim that they were innocent or naive about their intentions. The show, however, demonstrates the insidious nature of powerful relationships and how they can be used to make an individual question the nature of his sexuality. Indeed, whether it is true or not, people on this show who claimed to be heterosexual at the time of their encounter are now claiming that the encounter, along with the power dynamic, was enough to cause them to challenge their own assumptions about their sexual orientation. This fact alone is enough to make the show worth watching. As one “victim” stated, one of Spacey’s ultimate goals was to “ flip” straight men , and that it was part of the chase, the hunt, the conquest. This is a vivid, alarming statement about the insipid nature of homosexuality, and what we can derive from this statement is that there are more men out there like Spacey who prey upon straight men in an attempt to further their own sexual agenda through assimilation and indoctrination.