SPOILER ALERT: This article discusses in detail the docuseries “ aka Charlie Sheen ,” now streaming on Netflix.

The biggest revelation in “aka Charlie Sheen ,” a two-part documentary movie centered on the titular star, is never articulated by Sheen himself. Instead, the wunderkind-turned-sitcom-star, now eight years into hard-won sobriety, talks around the disclosure, using a tortured metaphor about restaurant menus to discuss his sexual appetites at the height of his addiction. It’s left to his offscreen interlocutor, director Andrew Renzi (“Paul American”), to explicitly state what Sheen won’t: that the actor has had sex with men , an admission that quite evidently carries more weight for Sheen himself than it does for the viewer. (Or at least this viewer, anyway.)

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