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 The "Welcome to Chippendales" scene in which we get the clearest sense of the allure of the male strip troupe occurs at the midpoint of the series. Kumail Nanjiani, who plays the group's founder, Somen "Steve" Banerjee, sits back and watches the action unfold around him. The self-satisfaction is reflected in Steve's face when he declares "I'm sitting in a Chippendale chair"; the dancers take their act's name from the Rococo furniture designer. He is wearing a very nice suit and a server drops a bottle of champagne into his ice bucket; For Steve, creating Chippendales is all about access to a highly polished and exclusive lifestyle. Except…that's not all Chippendales was, or all he stands for in the public imagination. And this eight-episode series tends to leave something on the table by treating the more exciting aspects of the exotic dance phenomenon as background noise amid the story of Steve's rise to power and his quest to hol...