Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere

Name: Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere
Director: Adrian Choa
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2026
Duration: 1 h 29 min

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Documentary

2026
Adrian Choa
89 mins
15

Summary

In an award-winning TV career spanning more than 30 years, documentarian and broadcaster Louis Theroux has travelled the world to meet colourful characters with conflicting worldviews. In this new film directed by Adrian Choa, he encounters a network of influencers and content creators who are gaining huge numbers of online followers by opposing feminism and reshaping young men's ideas about masculinity. Louis travels to Miami, New York and Marbella to spend time with prominent figures in the manosphere including Harrison Sullivan (aka HS Tikky Tokky), Myron Gaines, Nicolas Kenn De Balinthazy (aka Sneako), Justin Waller and Ed Matthews. These proponents of a resurgent global men's rights movement teach Louis their language, including colourful terms such as 'red-pilling', and explain their different interpretations of traditional gender roles and values

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Review

Jack Seale

Marginal cultures may have once been his bread and butter, but as Louis Theroux states, the fringe is no longer fringe. And such is the speed of change online that the views you’d hope would be of niche interest are now galvanising millions. Such is the situation in the “manosphere”, where misogyny is being rebranded as salvation for the purpose — so Theroux suspects — of making money for a handful of male influencers.

To test this theory, in this Netflix documentary he meets globally recognised names such as HStikkytokky (real name: Harrison Sullivan), Myron Gaines and Justin Waller to probe both their business models and psychologies. What he finds are guys with often troubled backstories, whose trauma has now morphed into anti-feminist messaging. But the image of wealth and power they project is illusory and out of reach for most followers.

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6.9/10