The only point of this tedious and very long mini-series is underlining the fact that Andy Warhol was gay. In case it might have escaped your attention, Andy's friends or associates still alive and interviewed for this project swear that Andy was definitely gay.
They all refute the fact that he was "asexual" -as he liked to say- because he was gay and sexually active. He lived 12 years with a handsome guy named Jed, who dumped him when Andy got too involved with the hardcore gay scene and produced a series of very explicit images. A less handsome guy named Jon followed reluctantly on Jed's path, but he was in the closet and that's why his romance with Andy was not discovered until after Jon's death of AIDS.
As if Warhol's obsession with transvestites, his sexually explicit artworks (think Mapplethorn but in serigraphy) and his live-in boyfriends were not enough to prove the point, in each and every episode, Andy's friends repeat that he was gay but could not be openly so, because of the prudish times... which sounds like BS to me, because in the 80s lots of famous people "came out" and Andy's sexual orientation was hardly a mystery.
What is particularly tedious is this ramming on the gayness and not much being said about Andy's work or his obsession with wealthy patrons and his fear of being obsolete. There is some reference here and there, but the documentary's core is the gay part. Just in case you might have forgotten or not paid enough attention, Warhol was gay... and so on for six episodes. And no, the monotonous AI recreated voice-over of Andy does not help a bit. You get that his was gay within the first five minutes. The rest is repetition.
They all refute the fact that he was "asexual" -as he liked to say- because he was gay and sexually active. He lived 12 years with a handsome guy named Jed, who dumped him when Andy got too involved with the hardcore gay scene and produced a series of very explicit images. A less handsome guy named Jon followed reluctantly on Jed's path, but he was in the closet and that's why his romance with Andy was not discovered until after Jon's death of AIDS.
As if Warhol's obsession with transvestites, his sexually explicit artworks (think Mapplethorn but in serigraphy) and his live-in boyfriends were not enough to prove the point, in each and every episode, Andy's friends repeat that he was gay but could not be openly so, because of the prudish times... which sounds like BS to me, because in the 80s lots of famous people "came out" and Andy's sexual orientation was hardly a mystery.
What is particularly tedious is this ramming on the gayness and not much being said about Andy's work or his obsession with wealthy patrons and his fear of being obsolete. There is some reference here and there, but the documentary's core is the gay part. Just in case you might have forgotten or not paid enough attention, Warhol was gay... and so on for six episodes. And no, the monotonous AI recreated voice-over of Andy does not help a bit. You get that his was gay within the first five minutes. The rest is repetition.