Netflix - Inside the Movistar Team 2019

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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    ddraver said:

    Poor Rick...

    Drive to Survive has turned me into exactly the sort of plastic fan who repeats what ever the token journalist says, never watches the actual races and chooses who to support by how pwetty the car looks.

    He's going to HATE this!

    :wink:


    He resents the fact that cycling is on British TV at all
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  • RichN95.
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  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,575
    Look what's here:

  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,592
    Things seem to have been a bit boring there this season though. UAE seems to be the place for potential in-fighting going forwards from looking at the Vuelta.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    RichN95. said:

    ddraver said:

    Poor Rick...

    Drive to Survive has turned me into exactly the sort of plastic fan who repeats what ever the token journalist says, never watches the actual races and chooses who to support by how pwetty the car looks.

    He's going to HATE this!

    :wink:


    He resents the fact that cycling is on British TV at all
    Not far from the truth. Clearly as cycling has got more popular, the quality of analysis from the average cycling fan has taken quite the plunge and isn't that far off football now, which is extra cringeworthy.

    Half of them sound like Carlton, it's painful.
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  • seanoconn
    seanoconn Posts: 11,739
    Pross said:

    Things seem to have been a bit boring there this season though

    Will still be plenty of enjoyable backstabbing to watch. I think series 3 is 2021.
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  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,575
    Pross said:

    Things seem to have been a bit boring there this season though. UAE seems to be the place for potential in-fighting going forwards from looking at the Vuelta.

    This covers the 2021 Vuelta, which was peak Movistar in terms of infighting.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,484
    Conspiracy theory - Did Netflix film UAE for 2022?
    Certainly seemed to take the Moviestar playbook.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    I have to say, as I never watch the Vuelta, I do seem to miss a lot of the infighting. Maybe it's just a Vuelta thing.
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,484
    rick_chasey said:

    I have to say, as I never watch the Vuelta, I do seem to miss a lot of the infighting. Maybe it's just a Vuelta thing.

    Did you not see the Pogacar one man show in the Tour?
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    pblakeney said:

    rick_chasey said:

    I have to say, as I never watch the Vuelta, I do seem to miss a lot of the infighting. Maybe it's just a Vuelta thing.

    Did you not see the Pogacar one man show in the Tour?
    That was mainly corona tbf
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  • m.r.m.
    m.r.m. Posts: 3,486
    Not really sure about that. They should send their strongest team including Ayuso, Almeida, Mcnulty to the Tour if JV go with everyone as well. I think they were a little complacent since Pogacar managed pretty much on his own the prior two years. Mejka did well at times despite Covid (one bad stage, one good one). Was his chain failure that made him abandon ultimately.
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  • roscoe
    roscoe Posts: 532
    pblakeney said:

    Conspiracy theory - Did Netflix film UAE for 2022?
    Certainly seemed to take the Moviestar playbook.

    I think they were one of the few teams not to allow access
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,484
    roscoe said:

    pblakeney said:

    Conspiracy theory - Did Netflix film UAE for 2022?
    Certainly seemed to take the Moviestar playbook.

    I think they were one of the few teams not to allow access
    Such a shame.
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  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,575
    Only four episodes this time, but it's a corking series. A lot of focus on the Vuelta, understandably, and much less on the Tour (Verona's crash and Eviti's day in the break is about your lot) and the Giro.

    I enjoyed it a lot. I think I have more respect for both the team and Superman Lopez after it, which, considering the events that are covered, shows how well the Netflix production team edited all the footage.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    It’s the best Superman drama since Christopher Reeve
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