House of Yes
Photo by David Russell courtesy HBO
The episode, Derech, Lazer Twersky, a real life former Hasidic Jew from Williamsburg plays Baruch. At a hangout with fellow lapsed Hasids, to which Baruch has invited the wannabe reporter Anja, she invites him to go to the House of Yes, the nightclub in Bushwick. There he crosses paths with the drag performers who do gymnastics while hanging from the ceiling (if you’ve been there, you will envision this perfectly).
Early morning, when Baruch chokes on his sandwich in the bodega, one of the performers is the one who saves him — because he’s actually a doctor.
