Red Sox to be 1st MLB featured on Netflix series
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Maybe this is worth its own thread?
Oct 23rd (a day after my birthday so thanks) brings a 3 episode series covering the 2004 Red Sox comeback
View: https://twitter.com/netflix/status/1833191388562772095
Oct 23rd (a day after my birthday so thanks) brings a 3 episode series covering the 2004 Red Sox comeback
View: https://twitter.com/netflix/status/1833191388562772095
Can't wait for the October 23rd... and the upcoming one. However hear they stopped filiming weeks ago - did they know something we didn't? like the team was going to sputter....
Did the stop of filming coincide with the Duran anti-gay slur incident? I could see the team limiting access at that time. Which kind of hurts the documentary, if you are not capturing the hard times as well as feel-good moments like above. I picture a conclusion at the all-star break and a caption 'The Red Sox went 30-35 in the second half to finish with a 83-79 record, and were 5 games out of the final wild card spot.'
The team are contractually not allowed to limit access to the Netflix team. Individual players can request their involvement is limited but the team isn’t allowed to view or have oversight of the footage. It was reported that they are limiting filming/following the team due to funding and have only attended select road series. Unfortunately they didn’t travel with the team to Colorado which means we’ll miss all that Cora extension and Reese McGuire drama.
I kinda doubt the Cora extension would have fit the scope of a single-year doc anyway, manager extensions don't mean much to the non-invested. Also doubt the whole McGuire arrest backstory is going to be featured.
Colorado may be the source of Devers' collapse though, after the diving shoulder injury, and that's had a pretty significant effect on the remainder of the season.
I think a bench clearing brawl is usually TV worthy, especially over something as seedy as that one. Not sure how you’d sit down to follow this team and not want to include the Cora question mark as one over the season. He was asked about it in interviews for months before it happened!
Too soon. I hope there's some cool inside baseball stuff in there because going over this season again, especially Aug/Sep, will be painful.
Seems like kind of a waste to produce a series on a team that wasn’t supposed to be good, and wasn’t. Will be curious to see what the narrative is , what is the audience for this thing? I’d consider myself a diehard fan and I don’t feel overly compelled to watch.
But you'll get to meet the players a bit. That's what I'm looking forward to most-
I disagree. I think that’s the point, actually. I think it’s to highlight the human stories that don’t get told by day-to-day sports media. So something like the 2024 Sox briefly overperforming before settling back closer to expectations is actually kind of perfect.