Watched 4 episodes of the new season of Formula 1 on Netflix.
Remember David Walsh, the journalist who chased Lance Armstrong's cheating for 13 years? The guy is an impressively cogent speaker, and, weirdly, he had insight into Netflix'
Drive to Survive without even talking about it.
The episodic, convergent, story format is old as the hills - well in English it's as old as The Canterbury Tales - and back in the 90s Walsh was meaning to do just such a story format on the Tour de France.
Walsh then also makes the point that all direct media coverage is expected to maintain a certain tone of "This is the most amazing sport event we are seeing. Most amazing
ever". And he immediately caught the public fallout for not sticking to the hagiography. In spite of his Tales format.
Netflix
may be trying to escape those expectations, I'm not personally sure. I don't think they even
try to avoid outcome bias in their editing - I use the Albon and Haas episodes in evidence. Yes I'm a bit Hell's Kitchen/ Forged in Fire about the show.
Oh, BTW, shall we start the 2021 thread?