Post by masterofallgoons on Aug 19, 2020 19:22:35 GMT
Has anybody else seen this show? It would have been worth a watch in the best of times, but in the absence of our normal sports viewing world it was even more engaging.
It's about fringe, local competitive sports around the world with each episode dedicated to a different event. In some cases they were things I'd heard of like the Highland Games in Scotland, or Roller Derby in Austin, Texas; in others they were things I peripherally knew existed but wasn't aware of the organizated competition like women's wrestling in India or Freediving in the Philippines. Then there were the oddities that I'd never heard about like the Italian sport that combines Rugby and Bare knuckle boxing, or the WWE style event in the Congo, or the game that resembles Polo but uses a goat carcass instead of a ball (I can't remember the country at the moment).
There are 8 episodes at about a half hour each and Mark Strong makes for a quality narrator. It's worth the time if you're looking for something to watch, and it seems like it could go on for multiple seasons. I'd bet there are plenty of these sorts of events that most of us know nearly nothing about all over the world.
It's about fringe, local competitive sports around the world with each episode dedicated to a different event. In some cases they were things I'd heard of like the Highland Games in Scotland, or Roller Derby in Austin, Texas; in others they were things I peripherally knew existed but wasn't aware of the organizated competition like women's wrestling in India or Freediving in the Philippines. Then there were the oddities that I'd never heard about like the Italian sport that combines Rugby and Bare knuckle boxing, or the WWE style event in the Congo, or the game that resembles Polo but uses a goat carcass instead of a ball (I can't remember the country at the moment).
There are 8 episodes at about a half hour each and Mark Strong makes for a quality narrator. It's worth the time if you're looking for something to watch, and it seems like it could go on for multiple seasons. I'd bet there are plenty of these sorts of events that most of us know nearly nothing about all over the world.