We Are: The Brooklyn Saints

"We Are the Brooklyn Saints" is a documentary series following a youth football program in the heart of inner-city Brooklyn. Youth programs work, and "We Are The Brooklyn Saints" demonstrates a close-knit and an up-close documentary approach about kindness and having positive goals. It shows how sport goes beyond competition and by nature, it can become a safe haven of community. "A loss is not a loss" - it's a chance to learn, mature, and develop, and the series does well to get those themes across. The documentary series takes its time to get to know influential adults, but it focuses too much on two players D-lo and Kenan, while this should be about the whole team. While Brooklyn Saints is a competent enough docu-series, it loses some intensity that could have made it a home run.

I like what the adults instill in our youth and the lessons they teach/preach but what I basically saw from the 4 episodes was a Whole team relying on One player Delonte who is #1 in the Under 9 division that was heavily the sole focus of this team.. football is a team sport an whether he was on offense scoring every time or defense making crucial/critical plays he was solely relied on that is what turned me off.. it's sad the pressure that gets put on these kids at a young age an if they aren't on field the team is hopeless.. I just feel like that's what wears great players out at a young age and it's hard to watch as a spectator.. ease up an don't just focus on 1 player to get u to the ship in which this team did IMO.

I was moved by this show! I hope that the program gets appropriate funding and push to provide for these men that have put so much hard work into these kids. Phenomenal story and hope it makes a comeback. My only critique is more episodes and expand on the other kids and coaches storylines. Although, I understand the difficulty with only 4 episodes. Great job Netflix on this project. 8/10