We Are the Champions

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

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.

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.

Amazing vignettes about quirky people participating in quirky competitions. Wonderfully shot, with fantastic narration by Rainn Wilson.

That said, there's a moment, around the 6:30 mark of the second episode, that is so eye-rollingly cringe, you'll break out in a slow clap. The pretentiousness displayed was pure lolz.

Other than that, an engaging series. Hopefully there will be more episodes to come

After watching the trailer, I told my husband we should definitely watch this show because for sure we would "pee" ourselves laughing. To my surprise what I expected to be an hilarious show, turned out to be such a lovely story about different dreams, life purposes an out of the ordinary ride to the passions of other people. Instead of laughing out loud, I found myself cheering for pretty much everyone who appeared in each episode. The narrator (Rainn Wilson) tells the story brilliantly and in the end of each episode you find yourself smiling at the tv and really meaning a "good for them".