“Before it blew the lid on a Russian doping scandal, Icarus was already a stranger-than-fiction endeavor. In 2014, playwright-turned-filmmaker Bryan Fogel set out to make a gonzo documentary (streaming on Netflix Friday) about steroid use in the vein of 2004’s Super Size Me, in which Morgan Spurlock ate only McDonald’s for a month to show the effect of fast food on the body. “
