The new Bill Cosby documentary 'We Need to Talk About Cosby' refuses to make a case against him

Showtime’s four-part series “We Need to Talk About Cosby” debuted at Sundance over the weekend.  Comedian W. Kamau Bell, a self-described “child” of Cosby, directs. Unfortunately, Bell merely refuels established debates around Cosby’s complicated legacy. Loading Something is loading. At the outset of “We Need to Talk About Cosby,” the new Showtime documentary about the comedian, actor, and accused rapist Bill Cosby, director W. Kamau Bell concedes that over the last few years there has been a lot of talk about the man who was once known to millions as “America’s dad.””Honestly, it feels like everyone has weighed in,” Bell says as a cacophony of images of people discussing Cosby during interviews and talk shows flash onscreen.Bell is correct. The accusations in 2014 that Cosby had, across the span of his six-decade career, drugged, raped, and sexually harassed dozens of women made headlines across the world. (Cosby was convicted on three counts of aggravated indecent assault in 2018 and sentenced to up to 10 years in prison. Cosby’s sentence, however, was overturned in 2021 after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that Cosby shouldn’t have been charged due to a deal made by a former prosecutor.)In this docuseries, which debuted as…
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