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There’s no out-bizarring The Rehearsal, but Paul T. Goldman comes reasonably close. Shot for more than a decade by director Jason Woliner (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm), Peacock’s docuseries, released Jan. 1, tells a bonkers true-life tale, as well as a variety of make-believe versions of it, until it hasn’t so much blurred the line between fiction and reality as madly scribbled all over it.
Warning: Some spoilers follow.
“Nobody could make up this shit!” exclaims West Palm Beach, Florida resident Paul T. Goldman, and that’s the first of numerous dubious claims strewn throughout Woliner’s six-episode series (only five of which were provided to press).