• Senna (on Netflix)

    From pP85PrR@21:1/5 to All on Sun Dec 8 10:39:40 2024
    I must admit to being a Senna fan, despite some of the dumb moves he made.

    But the new Netflix series is really disappointing. Way too many quick
    cuts to cars on track which neither add to the story of Senna's career
    or his character, nor demonstrate what the cars were like back in those
    days.

    I did glean a few facts from the first couple of episodes. For example,
    I never knew he'd been married at the start of his European driving
    seasons, or that he'd been divorced from her. Nothing startling in that,
    of course, but something I hadn't known. He always felt like a man too dedicated to his driving/winning to have time for any deep involvement
    with another person. Well, apparently not with his mother, if the series
    is giving us a true representation of her.

    I don't know if I will bother with more of the series. Too bad: I was
    quite looking forward to it.

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  • From k0bura@21:1/5 to All on Sun Dec 15 20:31:20 2024
    On Sun, 8 Dec 2024 10:39:40 -0500, pP85PrR <darryl_johnson@rogers.com>
    wrote:

    I must admit to being a Senna fan, despite some of the dumb moves he made.

    But the new Netflix series is really disappointing. Way too many quick
    cuts to cars on track which neither add to the story of Senna's career
    or his character, nor demonstrate what the cars were like back in those
    days.

    I did glean a few facts from the first couple of episodes. For example,
    I never knew he'd been married at the start of his European driving
    seasons, or that he'd been divorced from her. Nothing startling in that,
    of course, but something I hadn't known. He always felt like a man too >dedicated to his driving/winning to have time for any deep involvement
    with another person. Well, apparently not with his mother, if the series
    is giving us a true representation of her.

    I don't know if I will bother with more of the series. Too bad: I was
    quite looking forward to it.

    The production value is great, but honestly I lost interest for the
    reasons you describe.

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