Losers
By Martin Brown,
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Sports docu series dependent on hit-or-miss stories.
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What's the Story?
LOSERS is a documentary series that focuses on what are often the lowest points of an athlete's career: their biggest defeats, most embarrassing losses, or the moments that made them quit sports. The show looks at how their personal lives and careers led to these events -- with some emphasis on how much talent and perseverance it takes to compete at a professional level -- and how they recovered from them.
Is It Any Good?
Each episode of this series relies on the particular stories each one tells, and unfortunately many of them are anecdotal incidents that get stretched out way too long. It's incredibly valuable to see how much work goes into being a professional athlete, and how that work is often accompanied by public hostility and personal hardship, and it's equally valuable to see athletes triumphing over adverse circumstances in surprising and compelling ways. Sometimes Losers gets there, but ultimately the result is a sort of poor man's 30 for 30 with stories that rarely live up to their intriguing premises.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about what it means to be a professional athlete. How did the subjects of Losers get involved with sports? How did they succeed? How did they fail?
What surprised you about the athletes' backgrounds? What were some of their motivations for becoming athletes? Do their stories change how you view athletes or sports in general?
What are some of the relationships between athletes and fans? Between athletes and the media? Between athletes and their managers, coaches, teammates, or competitors? How did these relationships affect the subjects' careers?
TV Details
- Premiere date: March 1, 2019
- Network: Netflix
- Genre: Reality TV
- Topics: Sports and Martial Arts
- TV rating: TV-MA
- Last updated: February 27, 2022
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