IT’S good to see Season 3 of Formula 1: Drive to Survive on Netflix. If I was a fan of Formula 1 racing before, I became an even bigger one after following the reality series since Season 1.
With the rising numbers of infected people due to the Covid-19 virus, I really do have to limit my trips outside (usually only for food and groceries). It gives me something to watch after I finished up Last Chance U.
Last Chance U has got to be one of the best reality sports shows or documentaries I have ever watched.
The most recent series that featured basketball and the team of the Laney College Huskies was such an awesome series. The entire story is something that no writer can conjure. It’s just fantastic although the ending is anti-climactic and depressing and then hopeful.
That does sound contradictory but you will have to watch it to grasp what I mean.
The premise of Last Chance U are junior college programs that are seen as the last chance to get to a Division I or Division II school that will give one a better chance of turning professional.
Junior college football and basketball have both grown in the last decade or so and the recruiting is bigger as are the prizes.
There are two other series in Last Chance U—both American football and the programs of East Mississippi Community College and Independence Community College in Kansas.
Of the two, watch the East Mississippi series. It is so good that it spawned a second season and even an epilogue several years after Season 2 ended.
Independence…I am not sold. I do not like any of the cast of character more so it’s foul-mouthed coach. Well, Buddy Stephens, the coach of EMCC uses expletives like punctuation marks and is no less offensive. Indy’s Jason Brown is full of himself. I stopped watching after the third episode. This guy needs to get his feet back on terra firma.
Another recent addition is the documentary of football great, Pele.
As a football fan, one who rooted for the New York Cosmos during my much younger years, this is on my to watch list. The Cosmos was Pele’s last team and he played for them in the late 1970s in the old North American Soccer League where he teamed up with other football greats like Franz Beckenbauer and Giorgio Chinaglia.
Another series that I enjoyed is Late Life: The Chien-Ming Wang Story.
Wang is one of three Taiwanese players to have played Major League Baseball and he did so famously for the New York Yankees where he was a star before injuries got the best of him.
He won a World Series championship ring in his final season with the Yankees in 2009, but he has never worn it because he feels he didn’t help (due to his injuries).
It is a beautiful and sometimes painful documentary to watch more so when his life spins out of control owing to family and professional baseball problems.
And yet, I am happy that they produced this. People should watch this to understand that fame can be fleeting.
It is a very difficult time for our country with infections higher than they have ever been before. There are rumors of another lockdown and that can be devastating to an economy that is slowly firing up.
That is beyond our control and all we can do is follow government-mandated protocols and stay safe. We can work from home and do what we can to earn money while watching these really nice shows on Netflix.