Television Netflix’s Big Hulk Hogan Documentary Claims to Show the Man Behind the Hulkster. It’s All Kayfabe. By Enter your email to receive alerts for this author. Sign in or create an account to better manage your email preferences. Unsubscribe from email alerts Are you sure you want to unsubscribe from email alerts for Luke Winkie ? April 24, 2026 2:12 PM Netflix The fourth and final episode of Netflix’s documentary miniseries Hulk Hogan: Real American opens with Werner Herzog, an avowed WWE fan, opining about the spandexed simulacrum that is pro wrestling. The series chronicles the life and times of Hogan with a cast of jowly wrestling legends—their bodies depleted after too many suplexes—reminiscing about the good old days. Herzog, then, is a bit of an outlier. He’s here to provide a narrative rudder for a story rife with contradictions, applying the barest scaffolding to a messy biography. “All of us in a way have a performative life,” he says, in his unmistakable Bavarian accent.…