Jussie Smollett has become one of Hollywood’s most polarizing figures. The actor’s once-promising career, which began in childhood and crescendoed with a breakout TV role, went off the rails after a personal incident morphed into a full-blown legal soap opera.

In a new Netflix documentary, former "Empire" star Jussie Smollett spoke out about the support he received after he came forward with the hate crime allegation.

Just when we thought we were finally done with the whirlwind saga of the alleged 2019 hate crime against Empire actor Jussie Smollett—“whirlwind,” of course, being a reference to the shocking twist that Smollett might have been lying about the whole thing—Netflix,

Netflix’s new documentary "The Truth About Jussie Smollett?" spotlights (once more) the mystifying and hateful alleged attack of the actor.

And yet, sometimes a doc is so content to coast on name recognition that its incurious construction only emphasizes the Rorschach test of its central case. This is how The Truth About Jussie Smollett?