Polo

Having played polo for approximately 20 years of my adult life between the ages of 25 and 45, I must say that the series completely misses the point. Who cares about a one goal player named Louis who has a bad track record with relationships or an overly aggressive father pushing his son so hard that all joy of a magnificent sport is lost? The interpersonal relationships between players is mildly interesting, but the actual dynamics of a team, it's horses, and it's strategy seemed to have been completely glossed over in this series. Bill Clinton might have repeated James Carville's line, "it's about the economy, stupid". But someone seems to have forgotten that with Polo, it's about the horses, stupid.

This is an odd topic to base a series on. Where those involved have clearly seen a gap in the market, us plebs can understand that gap - we're fine with not knowing anything about the sport. There's absolutely no need to make polo mainstream or try to sell it to the masses. Those within the polo sphere don't want masses there, those of us not in the sphere don't want to be part of it 1 not least because there doesn't seem to be anything riveting about any of the people shown in the episodes. I think let's just let 2 very separate worlds coexist without ever mixing, that's fine. Not everything needs to be made equal.

I'm not sure what we were supposed to take away from this, but the pace, the shots, the sport, the people, the execution, the extremely exaggerated posing and false bonhomie just don't fool anyone. Polo isn't interesting enough for most folk. And it certainly isn't interesting enough through the lens of 2 former Firm members who add an unpalatable helping of insipidness to the whole thing.

This was either rushed through by the couple of "survivors" or, polo just doesn't make good watching - or both. Speaking as someone who neither loves or hates the British Royal Family, I went into this with a fairly open mind. Unfortunately I think the execution and the reviews kind of do speak for themselves and make minds up. It's just not good TV and the whole thing feels like the panicked, pretend, faux-natural yawn-athon it clearly is. I think it's probably time that Harry and Meghan chucked in the towel and that Netflix chucked Harry and Meghan.

A dull and tedious documentary. This show does not reflect well on the participants. Male dominated throughout. Women are appendages who stand, watch , look pretty and smile. I would have liked more on the history of the sport, the welfare and training of the horses. How are they bred ? Perhaps a smidge of bonding between rider and Pony. Is it purely for the 0.1%? Have people from under privilege backgrounds been afforded opportunities to mix with the sport or is it simply the black Amex club? Production was underdeveloped. I'm just confused as to why this idea was green lit. Surely netflix had much more viable options. Hard to get through the episodes.

Another disaster from Harry and Megan, the couple who begged for anonymity and freedom from public gaze, torment us with another slice of pomp and sheer irrelevance.

We're in a world where people are literally deciding whether to heat or eat, these two think it's the right time to put our a documentary about filthy rich people, devoid of knowing what it is to live in the real world.

Who is this going to appeal to, all I can suggest, if you're having trouble sleeping, pop this on, it is truly the most boring and pretentious thing you will ever see, it is painful from start to fish, you'll not be able to binge watch it.

We're told that the players and adoring fans are beautiful people, I'd question that, all I saw were an elite of hollow people, who all probably went home to enormous mansions, with not a care in the world.

Netflix, please do us all a massive favour, enough with these two now, it's becoming hugely embarrassing, surely they must be costing your business a fortune.

A contender for worst show of 2024, it's abysmal.

1/10.

I really wanted to like the Polo documentary (well is more like reality tv), it hace some good parts like the father son competitive spirit, but that's about it, no bad but no good either, The first episode was tough to connect with, because it presents a world that not only isn't very relatable to most people, but is boring to boot," I think they try to hard to be like the other sports documentaries on Netflix but the biggest problem is that Polo is not a sport that can connect with normal people, and that's the biggest problem with trying to bring a Polo documentary to Netflix, I am no sure if ever Polo as sport will be mainstream.