Hulu just dropped the first two episode of Welcome to Chippendales, a miniseries about the sordid and bloody true story of the iconic male strip show.
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Kumail Nanjiani plays Chippendales founder Steve Banerjee, and both he and the show are SO GOOD.
As is usually the case with these true crime adaptations, there's a lot of stuff that really happened and a few details that have been a little embellished. So, here's our best attempt to sort the fact from the fiction:
🚨SPOILER WARNING🚨 for the first two episodes, btw.
1.TRUE: Somen "Steve" Banerjee worked at a Mobil gas station and, as the show depicts, used his savings to buy and open a club.
2.FALSE: He tried several business ideas with Paul Snider (Dan Stevens on the show) before they settled on turning Destiny II into a male strip club.
3.FALSE: Banerjee came up with the idea for a male strip club and had to talk Snider into it.
4.TRUE: The name Chippendales is based on a type of 18th century furniture, and Banerjee chose it to imply a classy atmosphere.
5.FALSE: There was conflict between Paul Snider and Nick de Noia (Murray Bartlett) over how the club was being run.
6.TRUE: Dorothy Stratten (Nicola Peltz) was the person to suggest the iconic cuff and bowtie look inspired by Playboy.
7.FALSE: Dorothy Stratten and Paul Snider were married when he killed her.
8.FALSE: Possibly everything the show says about Irene Banerjee.
9.TRUE: Nick de Noia was a two-time Emmy winner who choreographed the Chippendales show and was crucial to the brand's success.
10.FALSE: A lot of the details about the character Denise Coughlan, played by Juliette Lewis.
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