Hulu’s Get Huge Is a Looksmaxxing Documentary That Plays Like True Crime and Never Names a Culprit: Who Tony Huge Is, What Happened to Leo and Longevity and Connor Murphy, What Is Actually Known About the Deaths and My Verdict on Whether It’s Worth Three Hours

Here is the uncomfortable thing about a title like Get Huge: Looksmaxxing to Death. It sounds like a punchline until you remember the last word is not a metaphor. Real men died, families are grieving, and at least one of those deaths still has no clear public explanation.

Hulu released all three episodes on Tuesday, Nov. 10, and the questions people are typing into Google are easy to predict: who is Tony Huge, how did Leo and Longevity die, and does the series say Huge did it. This story sticks to what is on the record, flags the places where outlets disagree, and tells you where I think both the series and the internet around it deserve some skepticism.

A note on what this is. The series is out, but this is not a review of the full show. It is analysis built from published reporting, the critics who have already reviewed it and the public record. Where I give an opinion, I say so.

What is Get Huge: Looksmaxxing to Death about?

Hulu pitches it as a true-crime docuseries about masculinity in the influencer age, where extreme biohacking, online performance and a run of suspicious deaths collide. Stacey Lee directs. Boardwalk Pictures, the company behind Welcome to Wrexham, and Hyperobject Industries, the company behind Don’t Look Up, produce it, per BroadwayWorld.

The setup is simple. When Leo and Longevity, a penis-enlargement advocate and one of Huge’s closest allies, is found dead in Thailand, other influencers in the scene turn into amateur detectives. Their questions land on Huge and his right-hand man, Connor Murphy, according to Hulu’s synopsis as reported by Laughing Place. Laughing Place’s review describes the three episodes as about three hours in total, with each one working as its own chapter.

If the word is new to you, looksmaxxing is a loose online movement devoted to maximizing physical attractiveness, often through risky methods. USA TODAY traces its roots to biohacking, the do-it-yourself approach to optimizing health and longevity.

One thing it is not: a documentary about Clavicular. The Hollywood Reporter says the series was never about Braden Peters, the 20-year-old looksmaxxer who goes by that name, even though his feud with Disney drew attention to the project. Out reports that his side sent Disney and Hulu a cease-and-desist letter after he was filmed backstage at New York Fashion Week in February, and that his likeness appears only briefly.

Who is Tony Huge?

Tony Huge is the online persona of Anthony Hughes, a former lawyer who became a bodybuilder and built a following of hundreds of thousands of people on YouTube, according to USA TODAY. His videos covered steroids, psychedelics and other substances, including illegal chemicals in extreme amounts, in pursuit of what he called peak male performance. The Mirror describes the same pattern, performance-enhancing substances that are in many cases illegal or not fit for human consumption.

His base in the story is a compound in Pattaya, the seaside resort city on Thailand’s Gulf coast where the series is set.

The series argues that his approach, improving yourself at any cost and filming it, came before the looksmaxxing wave. USA TODAY places him ahead of Clavicular, ahead of the rise of Andrew Tate and ahead of Bryan Johnson becoming the face of biohacking.

My read: if looksmaxxing is the part of this world that went viral, Huge is the part that came first. That is a claim about influence, not about guilt, and the two should never be confused.

What happened to Leo and Longevity?

This is the question driving most of the searches, so here is the sequence as reported, with each piece tied to who said it.

1. Jan. 30, 2023

   Laith Abdallah Algaz, 34, known online as Leo and Longevity, is found dead in the bathroom of the Pattaya home where he was staying, per USA TODAY and The Mirror. The Mirror reports that Huge went to check on him after he stopped answering calls and found the body.

2. The scene

   The Mirror says police described a room in disarray and found prescription drugs and other substances at the scene.

3. Early 2023

   FitnessVolt reported at the time that the Pattaya police chief said the body was going to the Institute of Forensic Medicine for a full autopsy, and that police urged the public not to jump to conclusions.

4. Days later

   Huge posted a video saying that, in his view, it was not possible anyone else was involved and that it was not a sudden drug death, per Generation Iron. That is his account, not a police finding.

5. Since then

   The death split the looksmaxxing community in Thailand. Many people online suspected Huge was involved, but he has not been accused or charged with any crime by Thai authorities, according to The Mirror.

6. Today

   USA TODAY reports that local police found Algaz dead from blunt-force head trauma and that the case is unsolved. I did not find a published autopsy report, and the 2023 coverage I found describes the cause as pending, so I would treat any single, confident account of how he died with caution.

What happened to Connor Murphy?

Connor Murphy was an American fitness and looksmaxxing creator with about 2.36 million YouTube subscribers, per Mothership. He died on July 7, 2026, in Samut Prakan province, Thailand. Most outlets give his age as 32.

According to the Bangkok Post, as relayed by Gray News, police were called to a luxury rental property over a man acting erratically. When officers arrived, Murphy jumped into a nearby lake, swam for several minutes, became exhausted and drowned. Fox News reported that full autopsy and toxicology results were pending at the time, and I did not find published results since.

He is a central figure in the series. The Mirror says it shows him trying to find out what happened to Algaz while making videos that hinted at his own involvement. USA TODAY reports he died about four weeks after filming ended, and director Stacey Lee told the paper his death strengthened her sense of responsibility to show more of him than his online performance.

Are the deaths connected? What the record supports and what it doesn’t

Here is how I sort the claims floating around. This is my own organization of the reporting, not an official finding.

USA TODAY names Weisser and Brooks as part of the pattern in Huge’s circle. I did not find details about their deaths that I could verify, so I am not characterizing them.

I laid it out this way on purpose. Four deaths over eight years in a community that treats self-experimentation as a lifestyle make a gripping pattern. A pattern is not a cause. That is my reading, not a finding, and it is why I would not repeat a “who did it” theory you see online unless there is a source behind it.

Why the series is about more than one death

Strip away the mystery and the series is also about how young men end up in this world. USA TODAY profiles one of the creators featured, who goes by Elon Muscular. He says he was 15, struggling and feeling unheard when a Google search about curing depression led him to biohacking. At 19 he messaged Huge and accepted an invitation to Pattaya.

Lee told USA TODAY she wanted to humanize a complicated situation. She described many of the young men drawn here as trying to solve large social problems with superficial fixes like bigger muscles or a sharper jawline. In her telling, much of what these creators do is performance, which makes it hard for young viewers to tell theater from advice.

What are critics saying?

The reviews I found were published on or just before premiere day. Laughing Place gave the series 4 out of 5 and said it plays closer to true crime than to a cautionary tale about cosmetic extremes. It adds that the first episode can be hard to get into because Huge’s backstory is held until the second. Ready Steady Cut gave it 3.5 out of 5 and praised its empathy, saying it avoids mocking these men and instead shows a culture that treats the loss of one of its own as a marketing opportunity.

Neither review claims the series solves the central question. Laughing Place says the third episode asks whether Huge was responsible for Algaz’s death and that the series cannot answer it. I did not find a Rotten Tomatoes score on Nov. 10, and TV Insider’s page showed no ratings yet.

My take: the real subject is the audience

Hulu’s title promises a body count, and the reviews say the series declines to hand you a verdict. I think that is the right call. A documentary that gave you a culprit, with no charges, no public autopsy and no confession behind it, would be doing exactly what the comment sections did in 2023.

What stays with me is not the drug talk. It is the machinery around it. Reviewers describe a scene where grief becomes content and a death becomes a marketing beat. If that is accurate, the series points a camera at the thing that keeps this world alive, which is attention, and at the people who supply it, including everyone who clicks on a story like this one. That includes me writing it and you reading it.

The part I would want a parent or a teacher to see is the 15-year-old. A kid searches for help with depression and finds a charismatic stranger with a mansion who tells him he is not alone. Whatever you think of Huge, that is the pipeline, and the series appears to spend real time on it.

Where I am skeptical: a production that mixes real grief with a whodunit structure will always tempt viewers to solve it. Resist that. A shared social circle, a lot of dangerous experimentation and a run of deaths make a story that feels like it must have a single answer. It may not.

My verdict: on the strength of the reviews and the reporting, it looks like a good use of three hours if you go in expecting a portrait and not a verdict. And before you share a theory about who did what, remember that Huge has not been accused or charged, and that the case, per USA TODAY, is unsolved.

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