#MeToo trailer: Room 2806 reprises a scandal before the movement went global

The recently released Netflix docu-series reminds us of a scandal that anticipated, 6 years before #MeToo, many uncomfortable questions about powerful men and institutional biases against women

Harvey Weinstein and legions of popular TV personalities, politicians, actors and celebrities found themselves at the centre of serial rape and sexual harassment accusations that ended glittering careers and sparked the #MeToo movement in 2017. But Room 2806, the recently released Netflix docu-series, reminds us of a forgotten scandal that anticipated many of the uncomfortable questions about powerful men and the institutional biases against women that #MeToo raised just six years later.
 
Room 2806 reprises the scandal that engulfed the International Monetary Fund (IMF), then at the centre of plans to revive the global economy following the subprime crisis.