What is the meaning of Mike Tyson? Socially, historically, politically, for the sport of boxing and within Black culture—what do the long, messy career and unimpeachable icon status of a champion who is also a convicted rapist actually mean?
in which Tyson’s then-wife sat beside him and discussed his violence towards her. Back to Mike in Indiana for the post-game analysis: “Robin beat me, and she did it in front of a national audience.” Depiction is not necessarily endorsement, but if Rogers intended to leave us with any greater perspective on the Tyson-Givens marriage, it doesn’t come through.
Meanwhile, the show engages in the kind of gleeful objectification that you’d think a drama so heavily focused on the rape and abuse of real women would take pains to avoid. Episodes are littered with the hot, nude, nameless groupies Mike is constantly bedding—at his home, in a Tokyo hotel, in the hot tub he has installed in his stretch limo.doesn’t exactly deny that its subject is, among other things, a predator. It just makes him look like a pretty enviable one.
Liberating her from Mike’s framing constitutes a bare-minimum show of respect for the real Washington. But it also makes for a jarring shift in style and reveals how inessential the Indiana scenes are in the rest of the series. At the end of the episode, when onscreen text informs us that Washington has lived anonymously since the trial and never sold her story, you wonder about the ethics of putting words in the mouth of a survivor who just wants to be left alone.
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