{"id":468885,"date":"2026-03-11T03:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T03:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/468885\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T03:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T03:18:10","slug":"inside-the-manosphere-review-can-this-netflix-documentary-disinfect-us-from-online-misogyny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/468885\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Manosphere review \u2013 Can this Netflix documentary disinfect us from online misogyny?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605<\/p>\n

Louis Theroux does a thorough job in this feature-length documentary about the extreme edges of online masculinity culture. That is to say, the veteran documentarian<\/a> weaponises his quizzical eyebrows and uses his apologetic embarrassment as a tool for access, all the while getting at the ugly truths and delusional hunger behind a movement trying to turn the mobile phones of teenage boys and young men into an indoctrination tool and ATM. <\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s both a valuable explainer \u2013 this is what \u201cred-pilled\u201d means \u2013 and a viable public disinfectant.<\/p>\n

\"LouisLouis Theroux (left) with Justin Waller in Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere.Netflix<\/p>\n

A long-time BBC fixture, Theroux uses Netflix\u2019s reach to get access to the comrades and camp followers of Andrew Tate, the first name referenced regarding toxic online misogyny. One of them, Briton Harrison Sullivan, aka HSTikkyTokky, hasn\u2019t heard of Theroux and doesn\u2019t know what to make of this trim, bespectacled 55-year-old with zero game.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe structure\u2019s not saying too much,\u201d Sullivan says, sizing up Theroux\u2019s biceps. That\u2019s the last thing he should worry about.<\/p>\n

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As he\u2019s always done, Theroux is unassuming but inquiring. He lets his subjects talk, believing that the exposure they receive will be more revelatory than rewarding. That\u2019s certainly the case here, where online provocateurs such as anti-feminist Myron Gaines discover that a Theroux conversation can casually zero in on their hypocrisy.<\/p>\n

Without being forensic, Theroux establishes the monetary gains that underpin the constant bluster about passing on \u201cthe cheat code\u201d. And he shows their fan bases, whether excitable boys or solemn adult acolytes, in telling street scenes.<\/p>\n

American influencer Justin Waller, a Mar-a-Lago guest of Barron Trump, explains to Theroux how he practises \u201cone-sided monogamy\u201d with his wife, Kristen. Later, in a home visit, Theroux runs those comments by Kristen, whose sales pitch isn\u2019t as polished as her husband\u2019s.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s telling how Theroux ends up interviewing the women, whether partners or mothers, who see the reality behind the sales slogans. Gaines, his girlfriend Angie notes, is a \u201cdifferent person\u201d when the cameras are off.<\/p>\n

\"NicoNico Balinthazy (Sneako) and Louis Theroux, in Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere. Netflix<\/p>\n

By the time Theroux gets to right-wing commentator Sneako in New York \u2013 who earnestly points out celebrity magazine covers as a sign of a Satanic cabal \u201crunning the world\u201d \u2013 Theroux has found the conspiratorial end point of the aggressive hustling and demonisation. He doesn\u2019t need to expose that much because his subjects tend to self-destruct. Sullivan spirals online after Theroux\u2019s visits, espousing antisemitism and becoming violent in his constant livestreams.<\/p>\n

Online culture and the vast corporate platforms that house it, Theroux notes, \u201cincentivise extreme behaviour\u201d, but Inside the Manosphere shows how this belief system is neither complex nor plausible. That structure, it turns out, is saying plenty.<\/p>\n

Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere is streaming on Netflix from March 11. <\/p>\n

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