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There’s weird, there’s bizarre, and then there’s Paul T. Goldman, subject and star of Paul T. Goldman, a Peacock docuseries that attempts to unravel the mystery of its protagonist and his claim that his ex-wife Audrey Munson is a prostitute-turned-madame who’s a member of an international sex-trafficking ring.
Exuding good-natured enthusiasm and dogged determination, Goldman is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside a wackadoo enigma, convinced he’s on a heroic odyssey to uncover his own personal global conspiracy—one that also involves private investigators, the FBI, and shady characters with names like Royce Rocco.
Jason Woliner’s six-part docuseries attempts to delineate truth from fantasy through head-spinning means, profiling Goldman in straightforward non-fiction fashion, filming dramatic recreations of Goldman’s screenplays (based on his supposedly true book Duplicity, as well as his wholly made-up sequel series The Paul T. Goldman Chronicles), and providing behind-the-scenes glimpses of the making of those staged sequences.