Netflix’s Colin in Black & White, a hybrid of teen drama and social activism, is all the better for the activism
is not among the top 10 most-watched shows on the streaming service in Canada. That seems odd, since NFL games are popular here, often drawing close to one million viewers.
Perhaps that’s because in Canada we are naive about professional sports. Or we want to be naive about what we might as well call the sports-industrial complex. Even as the Chicago Blackhawks scandal is unfolding before our eyes, many of us don’t really want to know uncomfortable truths about the sports leagues we follow.SER BAFFO/NETFLIX/Netflixdoes not dawdle on its path to making its point.
What’s clear is that he was a natural athlete and excelled in three sports. The series doesn’t boast about this and neither does the adult Kaepernick today. He’s more interested in pointing out that success came with “the white man’s stamp of approval” – and he does so with a certain amount of acid wit and a directness that is disarming. He’s not saying anything earth-shattering and wants you to know that.
The momentum of the six-part series is young Colin’s shift toward football as a career. He could have signed a lucrative baseball contract, but his personal insistence was on football. The issue, however, was that many coaches didn’t see him as quarterback material, not because he wasn’t fast, strong and clever – but because many things about Kaepernick triggered something in coaches and owners. He was, you could say, too clever, articulate and self-aware.
The series is a new kind of TV production, one that could only exist in the streaming world and it’s done in a style that is an emanation from a polarized American society.The series is a new kind of TV production, one that could only exist in the streaming world and it’s done in a style that is an emanation from a polarized American society. It inverts the old adage “show, don’t tell,” but of necessity.
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