After a humiliating loss to Argentina at the 2004 Athens Olympics, U.S.A.’s national basketball team — once the paragon of the sport worldwide — had much to prove at 2008’s Beijing games. They were dubbed the Redeem Team. Directed by Jon Weinbach, who helmed the thrilling Chicago Bulls documentary The Last Dance, and executive-produced by Olympians Dwyane Wade and LeBron James, The Redeem Team explores how James, Wade, Kobe Bryant, Carmelo Anthony, and legendary Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski achieved glory in a high stakes gold medal-winning game against Spain in 2008 by forging themselves into a team as strong as a family. The film is stirring and suspenseful, and offers up archival interviews and on-court footage of team captain Bryant, “The Black Mamba” himself, that is downright poignant. 

It all sounded so appealing: the promise of sex — and specifically, a 15-minute orgasm — as the cure to everything that ails the modern woman. That was the ethos of Nicole Daedone’s company OneTaste, a wellness startup in San Francisco that offered participants orgasmic meditation sessions in which a man stroked the “upper left quadrant” of a woman’s clitoris to achieve sustained orgasm. It was advertised as a tantric method of opening up lonely people to physical affection, intimacy, and connection, and among the group’s lofty goals was the mission of making the country — and the world — a happier, more satisfied place. OneTaste grew big enough that it attracted celebrity adherents, gained the endorsement of Goop, and earned  revenue in the millions. The forthcoming documentary Orgasm Inc., co-directed by Sloane Klevin and Sarah Gibson, explores how the company was revealed as a cultlike sex trafficking ring, eventually stoking a still-ongoing F.B.I. investigation. As the doc proves, if it sounds too good to be true — especially in the scam-centric times we live in — it probably is.