We Are the Champions

Gotta love a show that highlights the real oddities of the world and the people that cultivate and celebrate them.

This show has found the sweetspot between tension and humour, insight and storytelling, and info and entertainment. Regardless of the subject matter, the each episode discovers a niche and has fun digging deep and revealing each layer one at a time, executed in the most charming way. Can't get enough of this whimsical antidote to the most ridiculous year we've had.

Brilliant and highly recommend giggle and tears inviting viewing!

Cheese ball : Wacky sport in England, ending was thrilling. Best line was Men are three times stupider then women.

Chili eating : Ed you're evil and Dustin is inhuman.

Fantasy Hairstylist: really a fantasy indeed, there is something about it the black community

Yo-yo: Kieran, evan and Betty story was inspiring

Don dancing : Fun and cute

Frog jumping : Can't make sense, how can this even possible.

Great antidote to the lockdown blues, pacey, fun and lighthearted. Don't take any notice of reviews from those who take their 'communities' too seriously! Watch it for what it is and smile 😊

I wasn't expecting much from this Netflix documentary series about obscure competitive events but that first episode about the cheese rolling got me hooked. It's a curious rural pass time well-known to people nationally (and locally to me) and seeing it with an expensive slo-mo filter and big fancy cameras gave it a sort of wild and hilarious grandeur that I found really charming. It doesn't necessarily reach those giddy heights (not aiming for wordplay there) again but the formula is an engaging one. Wittily edited with a sort of rousingly droll narration by Rainn Wilson and with a lush documentarian-style focus - as an anthology format it was excellent. The virus world might have put a damper on these sort of niche crowd events to prevent us getting another series but I'd certainly watch more, there are no end to these manner of strange competitive events the world over and if a producer is listening LOOK UP SOMERSET CARNIVAL CLUBS.