As a lover of documentaries It's easy to see a huge decline in quality recently. Netflix has been capitalising on documentary success by pumping out limited series docs with very little substance and a lot of pomp. They house a lot of fantastic drama series however.
On the other hand sky has been producing some abysmal dramas and comedies the past few years. (Look them up, most sit at under 5 on imdb). So it was quite shocking to see a seemingly sky original documentary come out so well. It was engaging and told a chronological and digestible story. There were no interviews with internet sleuths (Looking at you Netflix). Each interviewee was a relevant person who was part of the story, and their did not seem to be any cases of dramatic editing with their words. They spoke at a reasonable length in full conversation and narrated some of the audio-less video footage.
The pinnacle of enjoyment however, considering the disgrace the English cricket team and their members have been in recently, was how they come off in this show. For such a non-inclusive entity with emerging racism and entitlement stories in the news It plots a thread that the English Cricket Board would be the ones to fall for this greedy and ridiculous contest. They were willing to look the other way as their national team, and their wives were played with. This story is nowhere in cricket coverage today in media, and this doc adds flavour to the reputation they are battling with currently.
