House of Hammer Review by Brooke Daugherty : Pop Culture Leftovers

House of Hammer Review by Brooke Daugherty

October 13, 2022 11:43 am |

If your venn diagram of television subjects has both celebrity stories and true crime, House of Hammer on Discovery+ has the crossover story for you. Oh boy, what a tale it is. If you think this is all about Armie Hammer and his “fetishes”, that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

Elli Hakami and Julian P. Hobbs directed the three part documentary about not only the cookie cutter white male actor, but his entire dysfunctional family going back generations. The torment, manipulation, and dare I say, sociopathic tendencies, flowed through the veins of his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather. Who knows? Maybe the whole damn family are demented.

Hakami and Hobbs go more into just an anonymous social media account calling out Hammer’s bad behavior in the name of “cancel culture”. They do their due diligence by interviewing many of the women in Armie Hammer’s life – including his aunt, Casey Hammer. She wrote an autobiography that detailed some of the salacious tidbits about her family which she reiterated for the documentary.

I cannot Tupperware this series because the things detailed were THAT FUCKED UP. I can’t say that I wasn’t riveted to the show, but the amount of rich white man “I can do whatever I want because I own you” mentality is what really made me the maddest of all. If he had respect for these women and understood consent instead of coercion, I would have less problems with what he may do on his own time.

In short, be aware of possible triggers of sexual and emotional abuse in this series, so watch at your own risk. Taste It (no pun intended)

PCL Rating: Taste It

Rotten Tomatoes Rating: FRESH