It’s rare to come across a documentary series that feels like it should be longer. In a corner of the TV world where runtimes can overinflate and attention can wane fairly easily, the frequent argument for these shows is to keep them tighter and more narratively compact.
The reverse ends up being true for “The Cost of Winning,” a new HBO series following the 2019 football season of the Baltimore-area, nationally recognized athletics powerhouse St. Frances Academy. With a team made up of plenty of college recruits and a schedule of high-profile opponents across the country, the show makes the argument that the Panthers carry the weight of expectations faced by few others at the high school level.
But while it threads the needle at points between adopting the styles of the Netflix junior college football series “Last Chance U” and the long-running HBO training camp staple “Hard Knocks,” this...
The reverse ends up being true for “The Cost of Winning,” a new HBO series following the 2019 football season of the Baltimore-area, nationally recognized athletics powerhouse St. Frances Academy. With a team made up of plenty of college recruits and a schedule of high-profile opponents across the country, the show makes the argument that the Panthers carry the weight of expectations faced by few others at the high school level.
But while it threads the needle at points between adopting the styles of the Netflix junior college football series “Last Chance U” and the long-running HBO training camp staple “Hard Knocks,” this...
- 11/10/2020
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
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