There are relatively few Netflix documentaries – even in this increasingly sensationalized and prurient age – that have made anything like the splash that the new show about the artist formerly known as P. Diddy has caused. Sean Combs: The Reckoning isn’t just hard to watch, but positively mind-blowing in its account of the imprisoned mogul’s actions and predilections. Although he was acquitted of the most serious charges that he was on trial for this year, Combs will not be released from jail until May 2028. Given the number of allegations and civil suits pending against him, any comeback for the disgraced musician looks impossible – even in an era when Kanye West is, apparently, given second chance after second chance.

The most chilling thing about Sean Combs: The Reckoning – and undoubtedly the cause of much of the controversy surrounding it – is that the show, directed by Alex Stapleton, has a level of access into its depraved subject that even those most opposed to the rapper’s activities might find invasive. When footage of........

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