Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Get Huge: Looksmaxxing To Death’ On Hulu, About A Mysterious Death In The Biohacking Community

Get Huge: Looksmaxxing To Death is a 3-part docuseries, directed by Stacey Lee, that examines the mysterious 2023 death of a YouTuber known as “Leo & Longevity” in Pattaya, Thailand. Leo, who touted penis-enlargement strategies on his channel, had connected with a well-known biohacking influencer named “Dr. Tony Huge,” and the two of them became fast friends. But a few months after Leo had moved to Thailand to make videos with Tony, he was found dead in the house they rented together.

Opening Shot: After a jokey warning about biohacking that looked like an FBI warning on an old VHS tape, we see the calm beaches of Thailand.

The Gist: In the first episode, Lee interviews Tony Huge and two of the guys that appeared in his videos: A fellow influencer named Connor Murphy and “Elon Muscular,” a biohacking protege of Huge’s. They talk about how Huge made a name for himself in the very male-centric biohacking world, promoting the use of steroids and other PEDs, as well as other questionable substances to not just get huge but to also slow aging.

Leo & Longevity, who wasn’t a medical professional but whose biohacking efforts were more rooted in science, became a favorite of Huge and the members of his community. When Leo went to Pattaya, Thailand, a city that is very permissive when it comes to things like PED and drug use and is rife with sex workers, he and Huge became inseparable. But when Murphy joined Huge’s crew, things got tense between Leo and Huge, culminating in Leo’s very suspicious death.

What Shows Will It Remind You Of? Get Huge: Looksmaxxing To Death is a combination of a biohacking documentary like Don’t Die: The Man Who Wants To Live Forever and a true crime docuseries like Deadly Influence: The Social Media Murders .

Our Take: While Stacey Lee isn’t trying to glorify the manosphere or the biohacking world in Get Huge , but the first episode certainly takes its sweet time establishing who Tony Huge is and who his acolytes are. There is also an examination of the “harem” that he surrounded himself with and showed on videos and how many in that harem were, in Thai parlance, “ladyboys,” which points out Huge’s fluid sexuality.

It’s helpful that Lee is able to talk to Huge and his two main surviving acolytes in Elon Muscular and Connor Murphy. Huge and Muscular (and yes, we are cringing as we type that) don’t come off like complete lunkheads in the docuseries. However, the way they talk about their biohacking efforts made us wonder a) if they every have any private thoughts that they may actually be doing more damage to their bodies than they promote on their videos and b) if the biohacking movement feels more like a cult that separates people from their money than anything else.

The first episode moves slowly enough that we found ourselves distracted while watching. Given that we’re following a group of men that seem to have all the depth of a kiddie pool, that could be a factor. There’s no one that’s relatable enough in this story to care about what happens, and that includes Leo, the penis-enhancement expert who winds up dead.

Sex And Skin: We see a whole lot of videos of Huge injecting the side of his bare behind, and there’s lots of talk about the sex trade in Pattaya.

Parting Shot: As we see someone in a lab coat create drug compounds, we hear a disguised voice say that when things happen more than a couple of times, it’s more of a pattern than a coincidence.

Our Call: STREAM IT. Once Get Huge: Looksmaxxing To Death gets past its setup, things should get more intriguing as everyone in the biohacking community tries to figure out what happened to Leo & Longevity.

Joel Keller ( @joelkeller ) writes about food, entertainment, parenting and tech, but he doesn’t kid himself: he’s a TV junkie. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Slate, Salon, RollingStone.com , VanityFair.com , Fast Company and elsewhere.