The stranger-than-fiction story behind Hulu’s The Contestant
Every Sunday for more than a year, 17 million people tuned in to watch a naked man trapped in a tiny apartment, surviving off whatever he could win from mail-in competitions. The twist? Tomoaki ‘Nasubi’ Hamatsu had no idea he was being broadcast to the public. Tom Murray delves into the stranger-than-fiction story behind Hulu’s new documentary, ‘The Contestant’