The age of perpetual content is upon us, and it is viciously uninteresting
A behind-the-scenes documentary about Plymouth Argyle’s battle to stay in the Championship has been shelved after manager Wayne Rooney was told to pack his bags. Photograph: Ian Hodgson/PA’s departure from Plymouth Argyle, after seven months and a winless run that left the club bottom of the Championship, not only suggests the former England star’s managerial career has reached its end – it’s also a signal of how contentious the fly-on-the-wall documentary has become in modern football.
Welcome to Wrexham: The club's owners, Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds , have brought a touch of Hollywood to the Welsh League One side. Photograph: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images In sport, the age of perpetual content is upon us, and it is viciously uninteresting.
Neymar himself may not have been responsible for the crime against cinema that is Neymar: The Perfect Chaos, but Uninterrupted, the LeBron James-backed content studio formed with the promise of cutting out the journalistic intermediary and giving fans access to the unfiltered athlete’s voice, was, so the result does not deviate from the fare produced via more straightforward narrative conflicts of interest.
As a revealing recent piece by the film writer Will Tavlin notes, Netflix’s real concern is scale rather than standards: sports documentaries, like all the other productions hosted on its platform, are merely a means to the company’s real end, which is acquiring ever-more subscribers. The streaming service’s priority is to have enough of everything to satisfy everyone.
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