The four-part Showtime docuseries doesn’t offer easy answers as it explores the disgraced comedian’s complicated legacy.
For about three years, it seemed as thoughBill Cosbywould die in prison.
Cameras capture the moment Bell learns the news, which he handles with a kind of bemused bewilderment.
Bill Cosby.NBCU Photo Bank
“I don’t really know what this film is anymore!”
he says, laughing.
In the premiere, Bell tells this story to Annette John-Hall, host of NPR’sCosby Unraveledpodcast.
She’d never heard it, but she’s not surprised.
“He made a huge impact.”
(Doubts about the authorship of his dissertation remain to this day.)
(Cosby, now 87,continues to denyall accusations of wrongdoing.)
We Need to Talkisn’t able to answer the daunting “why” of it all.
Good emerging from bad and bad emerging from good that’s the contradiction of Bill Cosby.
