W. Kamau Bell’s four-part docuseries is a deeply thoughtful, searing examination of Bill Cosby’s path from pop-cultural hero to accused serial rapist
, or the stand-up routine about Noah’s Ark — be enjoyed, as Seinfeld seems able to do, without thinking of what so many women say Cosby was doing to them around the same time? Should all the good parts of his legacy just be memory-holed in light of the many horrible ones?
Bell divides the story into four chapters: Cosby’s rise to fame as a comedian and Emmy-winning TV star in the Sixties; his pivot into family-friendly educational TV in the Seventies; his Eighties explosion in popularity thanks to; and finally his unmasking as a rapist over the last two decades, including his arrest, trial, conviction, and eventual release on appeal.
Instead, all the talk about Cosby is as much about contrasting his public and private lives, and about seeing if there is a path towards reclaiming Cosby’s art without absolving his other deeds. That’s far more challenging territory, but Bell and company navigate it with exceptional grace and thoughtfulness.
about drug use. Doug E. Doug, who played a supporting role on Cosby’s little-remembered late-Nineties CBS sitcom, describes Cosby’s educational Saturday morning cartoonas “a joy headache.” He meant so much to so many people, particularly with the enormous global success ofand its depiction of a well-to-do, morally upright, always loving Black family.
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