- Network: HULU
- Series Premiere Date: Jul 14, 2022
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Jul 19, 2022
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Jul 16, 2022It's a solid doc, especially the parts relating to the rise and fall of the "ideal, thin VS models" - esp as it crashed into the me too movement, etc. But so much of the final 2 episodes deals with Jeffrey Epstein, you feel like you need a shower just to get the story off of you. And what's with the "journalist" trying to out Les Wexner? As if his sexual orientation matters here.
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A purported investigation into industry abuses needs to produce the rotting carcass by the end. In the absence of such, we are asked to make do with such insights as the damage Victoria’s Secret has (probably) done to women over the decades by promoting of tall, skinny-yet-busty white women as the only acceptable form of beauty.
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The challenge in repeatedly returning to the Epstein of it all is that it potentially adds a salacious "ick" factor to the narrative without bringing much new to the party. "Victoria's Secret: Angels and Demons" mostly overcomes that criticism in a way that's well worth watching, even if, by the standards of the best docuseries, it doesn't rise to the level necessary to completely earn its wings.
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It’s telling that Wexner himself did not want to be interviewed for the docuseries. That association with Epstein is going to be explored in-depth in the subsequent two episodes, especially episode 2, and it seems like that is what is going to dominate, more than even the usual vagaries of the fast fashion world that Wexner helped pioneer.