Weeview: Client 9 - The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer

Client 9 - The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer (2010, directed by Alex Gibney)

As with most docs like this, Client 9 succeeds or fails on the strength of the personalities of the folk interviewed, and Gibney manages to get some doozies even above and beyond the charismatic Spitzer himself. It also adds another nail in the coffin of modern political journalists, who come out of the doc looking gullible and lazy. While it doesn't come close to answering the question of what the hell the governor was thinking, it does make a strong case that despite the scandal, Spitzer may not be done with politics on the national stage just yet.