Bring Me the Beauties: A Model Cult review – wildly juicy TV about the guru possessed by an alien

This tale of the Studio 54 stunner-turned-extraterrestrial who lured models to his Manhattan apartment for sex, money – or to give them mint face masks – is fascinating … yet fails to explain quite why so many believed his baloney Documentaries about cults all have the same task, at which they nearly all fail: explaining exactly how so many people fell under the spell of a man (it’s always a man) who was, to outside observers, so obviously a damaged charlatan. None of it makes sense; it would...

By Jack Seale