'There Is No 'I' in Threesome' Ending Plus, Is the HBO Doc Fake?

'There Is No 'I' in Threesome' Will Keep You Glued to the Screen Until the Very End

Feb. Sixteen 2021, Published 6:37 p.m. ET

Where do we begin to discuss HBO's newest documentary, There Is No "I" in Threesome? The ending seems like a becoming position to start out unpacking what went on in the 87-minute film.

There Is No "I" in Threesome follows a newly engaged couple, Ollie and Zoe, as they try to navigate an open relationship main as much as their wedding ceremony, at which point they intend on turning into a monogamous couple and development a family.

'There Is No 'I' in Threesome' ending, defined.

"We want to show the world through our own experiences what vulnerability and love and intimacy can be like," is how Zoe explains director Ollie's documentary challenge.

As Zoe and Ollie explore different "versions" of themselves with other companions, Zoe begins to fall in love with her boyfriend and in the end rethink her courting and engagement to Ollie. Put simply, she ends their relationship over a video call.

"You are always pretending," Ollie says. 

"Babe, I wasn't pretending," replies Zoe. "I feel in love with you and I loved you and I've been loving you for the past three and a half years." 

"And that stopped?" 

"I think it stopped," she says.

While this doesn't precisely come as a surprise to viewers, the scene that follows may. We pan out and see that Zoe is now not Zoe at all. She's not the girlfriend Ollie made her out to be, however slightly actress Natalie Medlock, who was once employed to assist Ollie end out the venture.

He explains: "The story of this film started almost five years ago. My fiancée and I decided to make a documentary about us exploring alternatives to monogamy."

"Our documentary became my film when she left me for the new guy, Tom," Ollie continues.

Three years later, not short of to be left with out a fiancée and with out a film, Ollie went back to the modifying room. With permission from his ex, he solid actress Natalie Medlock to finish the film with.

What's more, Natalie was a co-writer on the challenge. "Together we watched the original documentary footage," Ollie recollects, "the parts we could use, and what we would recreate."

So, how much of 'There Is No 'I' in Threesome' is real?

With this large expose coming more than an hour into the experimental HBO movie, viewers are left questioning whether or not the whole mission was once fabricated in keeping with Ollie's preliminary conceit.

"Shivon is real," Ollie clarifies, "my mother is real, Bowie and Wilbur [are real too]."

What else is completely real? The classes that Ollie took from working in this filmmaking undertaking. "The truth is I neglected [Zoe's] pain in all of this," he says at an uncharacteristically retrospective level. "I wouldn't stop filming even as our relationship fell apart because it made for a good story of me falling."

Now, after the unlock of the film on HBO, Ollie takes to Instagram to reflect. "I had to write myself back together," he writes in one put up. In any other: "Someone always gets screwed."

There Is No "I" in Threesome is to be had to movement on HBO Max.

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