(Some light spoilers ahead for the fourth episode of “Halston” on Netflix)
The new Ryan Murphy-produced Netflix show “Halston” is quite a thing to behold, with a hugely entertaining five episodes full of fun, gossipy material. The show is salacious enough that Roy Halston Frowick’s family has already disavowed it as “an inaccurate, fictionalized account” — though they might just be making that claim because while the series clearly holds Halston in reverence, it doesn’t shy away from his warts.
One example of those warts is the show’s depiction of Halston’s cocaine habit. Over the course of those five episodes, Halston develops a “Scarface”- level obsession with the drug. At one point, Halston demands his assistant Sassy get more coke after they ran out — in reply, Sassy complains that they ran through a two-week supply in two days.
One of my favorite bits of the...
The new Ryan Murphy-produced Netflix show “Halston” is quite a thing to behold, with a hugely entertaining five episodes full of fun, gossipy material. The show is salacious enough that Roy Halston Frowick’s family has already disavowed it as “an inaccurate, fictionalized account” — though they might just be making that claim because while the series clearly holds Halston in reverence, it doesn’t shy away from his warts.
One example of those warts is the show’s depiction of Halston’s cocaine habit. Over the course of those five episodes, Halston develops a “Scarface”- level obsession with the drug. At one point, Halston demands his assistant Sassy get more coke after they ran out — in reply, Sassy complains that they ran through a two-week supply in two days.
One of my favorite bits of the...
- 5/15/2021
- by Phil Owen
- The Wrap
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