Maradona: le rêve béni

IMO if this were on Netflix then this show would be talked about a lot more on social media and have a higher rating.

When I first started watching this around 2-3 episodes in it reminded me of the first time I accidentally stumbled across Cobra Kai on YouTube Red and wondered why a quality show like this was on a very relatively low par streaming service. The people involved with this have pretty much covered Diego Maradona's entire life from 8 years old and it was absolutely fascinating. There are so many interesting facts about the series and if you're like me you'll be looking at Wikipedia and constantly pausing/resuming whilst watching (the Amazon x-ray thing is very handy) to read about the characters involved in his life and it was very colourful indeed.

I love the fact it mixes in real footage during certain scenes and is a brave but brilliant way to keep you interested. The end credits of each episode in particular are good with old photos and videos showing in real life what happened in that particular episode.

All in all if you're really a fan of Diego and I obviously don't know how much of it is true but it's really fascinating and taught me not just about Maradona but the politics and death the Argentines had to deal with in the 60/70s which was an eye opener.

I've seen the documentary from a couple of years ago and for me, the detail involved for me is far greater with the show and is well worth a watch.

BTW I'm a 43 year old fan from England and I still don't forgive him for Mexico 86 but I definitely have a new found respect for him after watching this show.

Sometimes we learn out of a hero that shows how important is to separate the man of his creation.

Maradona as Chaplin, Osho, Dali and a very long lists of outstanding talents, give us the opportunity to understand that idealization works as a broken compass.

Subpar acting, horrible dialogs, and a clear ideological bias make up one of the most unwatchable series I have had to endure. This is neither a good representation of Maradona's life nor the turbulent period of Argentina's history at the time. Stay away from this unless you want to be dumber than when you started watching.

The envious will say many things about this series. This series shows the different faces of Maradona, the most human god.

The three actors who represent the different facets are incredible.

Excellent performances.

Boring, disjointed mess.

It's ok to try story telling in a non linear way, but jumping from so many different time frames made it difficult to follow. Also the different actors who played Diego had very different styles of acting, which is bad, because they are playing a real person, so well known around the world that i can't understand why none of them could get the job well done.

As for the series itself, think of a Thanksgiving dinner in which you have a perfect recipe for turkey, but there's so much stuffings that by the time you make it to the main course nobody wants to eat it. In here you have all the ingredients, but there's so much that even the important parts got lost.

I don't think I'm alone in the critics because i don't see many people writing any reviews.

I don't know what they were trying to convey in the series. But, if you are going to make a point with full frontal nudity, at least be consistent about the main character being circumcized or not. We all looked there. And you know it.