In 1991, I was sitting in a hotel in Colorado, watching a live interview given by Bill Cosby to presenter Larry King, in which the beloved comedian explains to one of the most influential interviewers in America what a rape drug is and how to use it.
Beyond a slight discomfort shift in the chair, I do not remember what sediment this discourse has created, which explains the welcome change we have undergone since.
Who would have thought then that in 2021 we would be talking about a serial rapist with more than 60 rape cases on the belt under his colorful sweater?
In the docu-series "Must Have to Talk About Cosby," the first of its four episodes aired yesterday (Monday), Emmy-winning black director and comedian Wu Kamau Bell puts himself at the forefront to crack Cosby's character, and try to answer the socio-political question: Why many So for so many years they have turned a blind eye to the greatest sexual predator the world of culture has known to date.
Bill Cosby, whom we Israelis know, was the father of the family who combined values with punches and tried to educate the "Cosby family".
In the US he was much more than that - a cultural icon who smashed the glass ceiling in white America, and became the ultimate American father, the national family educator - and all this in the land of possibilities not really unlimited if by chance black was born.
Summary of previous episodes: Cosby's first rape affair exploded sometime in 2004 and America did not believe, or did not want to believe.
In July 2015, pictures of 35 women bravely recounting being sexually assaulted by Bill Cosby appeared on the cover of The New York Times.
Director Bell, an African-American himself, confronts the community he came from with the celeb premise of the comedian.
He goes on to tell the story of NBC and an entire industry whose money has blinded their eyes, and the relationship of silence so infuriating that the Cosbians know how to build around them.
The series around Cosby promises, and according to reviews abroad also holds, perhaps because this is the first time in the Me Too era a superstar who is always in the front and familiar in every home, that the gap between his clean and revered image and the inconceivable deeds shows .
Based on the first episode, the series does not look like the (excellent) docu-papers on Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein.
Bell decided not to lead Cosby to a gallows in City Square - but to let the testimonies of the injured women clash with his life enterprise and his polished image, so that we could deduce from this what celebrity discounts we give to those who have perished.
At the beginning of the episode he asks who Cosby is, and the awkwardly worded answers show that politically correct America still does not want to call him a serial rapist, except for one stand-up comedian who does not knock an account and calls him "a rapist who once had a TV show."
While Epstein Weinstein acted mostly behind the scenes, the director of "Must Talk About Cosby" has a treasure in hand, which seems like a flashback to the series: a series of clues Cosby has scattered throughout his career, TV series, stand-up and interviews about predator thinking and action.
The gap between the amusing words and the shocking melody that plays for us today, promises amazing moments.
The series also deals with the years when Cosby was no longer seen on screen, but took on the role of preacher at the gate and educator in a variety of social, class and educational statements, and when he finished - he returned to dripping rape into his victims' glasses and carrying out his plot.
Cosby is sent to jail, but half a year ago comes a plot twist that will keep us interested until the fourth episode in the series: Cosby is released from prison following some legal gossip about how evidence is not considered if the rapist confessed in a plea deal.
If it was not sad, it would probably be funny.
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