Quarterback
By Martin Brown,
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NFL docu looks at three QBs' professional and family lives.
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What's the Story?
Quarterback is an in-depth look at players who take on one of the most important positions in sports and play at the highest level. The first season focuses on a season in the life of Patrick Mahomes, Kirk Cousins, and Marcus Mariota, with special attention paid to the hyperspecific demands of the job as well as the need to balance them with a healthy, fulfilling family life.
Is It Any Good?
It's a huge win getting Patrick Mahomes, arguably 2023's current face of the NFL, at the center of the first season of a documentary series. That by itself should be enough for most football fans to check out Quarterback, which is produced by Mahomes' production company in conjunction with Peyton Manning's. The picks for the other two subjects are also inspired. The series captures former #2 pick Marcus Mariota's return to a starting job and catches Kirk Cousins' 13-4 season, which featured a handful of incredible comebacks and viral moments. Plus, Mahomes and Mariota both had children born during the NFL season. Unfortunately, the documentary doesn't do a ton with all this great material. Though it claims to have "unparalleled access" to the players' lives, it sticks almost exclusively to interviews with the players, their wives, and their head coaches, interspersing clips and montages of games and sports media interviews. The result is a series that feels longer than it should be (at a total of more than six hours) yet not deep enough to offer new insight into its subjects. This one is mostly for the true fans.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about the QBs. How familiar were you with each of the quarterbacks before watching this series? Were you fans of any of them? Did you dislike any of them? How did your feelings change over the course of the series?
What insight does the series give about playing the quarterback position? What kind of work do each of the players do to prepare for the season? For each game? How do their approaches differ? What challenges do they face? How do they approach each challenge?
How is each quarterback's family life portrayed in this series? How does each one approach fatherhood? How do their families differ, and how are they the same?
TV Details
- Premiere date: July 12, 2023
- Network: Netflix
- Genre: Reality TV
- Topics: Sports and Martial Arts
- TV rating: TV-MA
- Last updated: July 12, 2023
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