, which was screened in February. Alongside extensive interviews with Tate and women who claim to have been abused by him, Shea explains that the money-making courses Tate flogs online using his bombastic personality and glitzy lifestyle double as an “affiliate marketing” scheme.
Continually juxtaposed with these infuriating and disturbing revelations is the so-called humour Tate deals in. Since the first documentary was released, Tate has been obsessively mocking the superficially nervy but courageous journalist in his content, producing DNG T-shirts with Shea’s picture on them, and ensuring that Shea receives a personal email each time one is purchased.
Much more satisfying is the fact that Shea manages to pin down a key accomplice of Tate’s who has been flying firmly under the radar: a sixtysomething American known as Iggy Semmelweis, self-styled spiritual leader and “greatest hypnotist in the world”. This documentary suggests that Semmelweis is the “real mastermind of the War Room,” and used Tate as a figurehead for his own enterprise.