Station:
E! (US)
Status:
Ended
Start:
2018-01-30
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Artist/activist Rose McGowan has gone from a world where she was maligned, discounted and disbelieved into one where women are using their voices to call out abuses of power. McGowan is set to launch her now New York Times bestselling think piece BRAVE into a world in which she is at the center of a massive social and cultural change. Viewers get unfiltered access as Rose laughs, cries, and fights to survive in a world where she finds it hard to know who she can trust.Rose learns how to be an activist whose activism is based on trauma as she navigates an extraordinarily unusual life path. We see, in almost-real time, as she deals with the emotional toll of having to constantly revisit her painful past, all the while launching a book that is one of her proudest achievements. Rose takes her social movement, #rosearmy, global to Berlin, Paris and Rome with friends like fellow survivor, Asia Argento. With the pressure on her at an all-time high, and a confrontation during a book signing, Rose reaches her breaking point and comes face-to-face with a lifetime's worth of trauma that she's never dealt with.With Hollywood behind her, Rose journeys to the beautiful place where she grew up as part of the Children of God cult and must find the courage to face the darkness of her past in order to smile brightly at her future.
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S1E2 - Brave
Rose is excited about the launch of her book, and the press tour to promote it. However, her years of built up trauma start to surface as the media focuses more on the details of Rose's assault instead of the message in her book, pushing her to a breaking point when a protester disrupts a reading of her book at Barnes and Noble.
Air Date: 17 May 2018 21:00 (CDT)
S1E3 - Trauma
Rose cancels the remainder of her press tour and travels to an undisclosed location with her aunt, after being verbally attacked by a protester at a reading for her book. Rose decides to begin therapy to address a lifetime's worth of trauma, and faces the fact that she might have to scale back her activism and start living for herself.
Air Date: 24 May 2018 21:00 (CDT)
S1E4 - Cult
Rose and her aunt Rory have an emotional reunion with Rose's sister in Paris before heading to Italy to meet up with Asia Argento and participate in an International Women's March. Later, Rose revisits the area where her father ran a chapter of the Children of God cult.
Air Date: 31 May 2018 21:00 (CDT)