Halston refused to admit he had a problem — so does Halston. (Image via Netflix) Halston suffers for having had a compelling trailer.
The trailer cheated, using a Depeche Mode song released the year Halston died rather than a disco tune evocative of his dominant era, but it was effective, mixing high drama with high camp and suggesting the kernel of a promising biopic.
Would Ryan Murphy finally transcend his lust for getting the look right and hit rather than miss in the insight department? No.
Halston, a new five-episode series on Netflix, looks exquisite and contains a convincing, if flat, performance by Ewan McGregor as the boy from Indiana who restyled himself as a snob who was backed into marketing his elitism with the gusto of