Having been in the spotlight the vast majority of her life, both onscreen as an actor and offscreen as a Hollywood cautionary tale, Evan Rachel Wood understands how media works. She sees the potent…
, Wood exorcises horror stories with a palpable mixture of relief, fear, and determination. There are moments when she gets emotional, as when poring over diary entries and photos from the year in which she met Manson at 18, a fact that shocks her every time she’s faced with hard evidence of just how young she was.
As a documentary subject and witness to her own life, Wood demonstrates an impressive commitment to and capacity for analyzing her experience as part of an insidious whole. She remembers her father explaining to her when she was very young that he and her mother “fight because we love each other — that’s what people in love do” with the grim gravitas of someone who then internalized the line in all the worst ways.
If this sounds like a whole lot to get through in just over an hour…well, it is. Some sections hold together better than others; amid everything else, the segments addressing Wood’s part in passing the Phoenix Act in California get shorter shrift than they might have if the documentary had more time to address everything it tackles in more depth. But the mission driving Wood, her family, and allies carries throughout.
The episode ends with Wood on the precipice of publicly naming Manson as her abuser for the first time, which she did along with several others in February 2021. Though Manson subsequently became the subject of investigations and was dropped by his agents and record label, he’s since resurfaced to hang out with the likes of Kanye West and Madonna as recently as last week.
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