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‘I Don’t Know How Much of It Is Immoral’
Jerrod Carmichael’s surreal new HBO docuseries Reality Show puts all his relationships to the test. He’s still living with the aftermath.
Over eight episodes filmed between September 2022 and early 2024, he documents Grindr hookups, a budding romance, therapy sessions, interpersonal foibles, intense talks about his sexuality and family history with parents who would rather he keep both topics to himself, getting high and watching Phantom Thread, and other intimacies that border on exhibitionistic. It’s also funny and a little sad — sometimes simultaneously, like when Carmichael confesses his love for Tyler, the Creator and summons the rapper to his apartment to have an awkward conversation about it while the HBO crew watches. At the SXSW premiere earlier this month, Carmichael and producer Eli Despres said Reality Show started as a fictional spin on disgraced New York politician Anthony Weiner but morphed into a documentary.
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