It's kind of weird to think that the Italian John Holmes gets a seven-episode show about his life and profession, in which said life is highly romanticized, making him take a stand like a superhero whose superpower is - obviously -sex.
One would think that pretty much everybody is gifted with that kind of cheap superpower, but of course, not everybody ends up making a living cavorting in public.
The show starts with a very young Rocco being under the spell of older "brother" Tommy, a small-time crook who ends up in Paris and thanks to his connections in the underworld will launch Rocco's "career".
It's highly debatable if such a career is worth celebrating, but for sure the script goes out of its way to show Rocco as an almost shy guy, ready to protect the weak (his younger brothers) and looking for "love" first with Lucia, Tommy's wife, then with a naive girl and finally with a slightly deranged "model" with whom he spends 10 months in Greece.
Despite the earnest attempts to clean up Rocco's act, the truth is that his world is extraordinarily sleazy...for instance, Tommy pimps Lucia in Pigalle while professing his love among hysterics, Rocco's forays in the red light district and the American hard-core porn are anything but naive. Rocco is described as "handsome" but even the actor portraying him cannot disguise a sneery brutality in his handling of women.
One would think that pretty much everybody is gifted with that kind of cheap superpower, but of course, not everybody ends up making a living cavorting in public.
The show starts with a very young Rocco being under the spell of older "brother" Tommy, a small-time crook who ends up in Paris and thanks to his connections in the underworld will launch Rocco's "career".
It's highly debatable if such a career is worth celebrating, but for sure the script goes out of its way to show Rocco as an almost shy guy, ready to protect the weak (his younger brothers) and looking for "love" first with Lucia, Tommy's wife, then with a naive girl and finally with a slightly deranged "model" with whom he spends 10 months in Greece.
Despite the earnest attempts to clean up Rocco's act, the truth is that his world is extraordinarily sleazy...for instance, Tommy pimps Lucia in Pigalle while professing his love among hysterics, Rocco's forays in the red light district and the American hard-core porn are anything but naive. Rocco is described as "handsome" but even the actor portraying him cannot disguise a sneery brutality in his handling of women.