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Subject: Re: Senna (on Netflix)
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:27:14 +1300
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On 16/12/2024 9:31 am, k0bura wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Dec 2024 10:39:40 -0500, pP85PrR <darryl_johnson@rogers.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> I must admit to being a Senna fan, despite some of the dumb moves he made.
>>
>> But the new Netflix series is really disappointing. Way too many quick
>> cuts to cars on track which neither add to the story of Senna's career
>> or his character, nor demonstrate what the cars were like back in those
>> days.
>>
>> I did glean a few facts from the first couple of episodes. For example,
>> I never knew he'd been married at the start of his European driving
>> seasons, or that he'd been divorced from her. Nothing startling in that,
>> of course, but something I hadn't known. He always felt like a man too
>> dedicated to his driving/winning to have time for any deep involvement
>> with another person. Well, apparently not with his mother, if the series
>> is giving us a true representation of her.
>>
>> I don't know if I will bother with more of the series. Too bad: I was
>> quite looking forward to it.
>>
> The production value is great, but honestly I lost interest for the
> reasons you describe.

Thanks for the feedback guys. I've never been a Senna 'true believer' but was considering watching 
this. I won't bother. Cheers.
-- 
Shaun.

"Humans will have advanced a long, long way when religious belief has a cozy little classification 
in the DSM"
David Melville.