Review of Beartown

Beartown (2020)
7/10
Thuggery on Ice.
9 April 2021
I find it really irritating when a drama opens with a scene from the future.

You wait for the scene to transpire all the way through every episode, in this case until towards the end of the last episode.

This is a three part drama spread out over five episodes. The first two episode had little to do with the main theme of the drama which only became apparent at the end of episode two.

The first episodes covered the implausible story of an ice hockey coach turning a losing team into a winning one in next to no time at all. Bad or average players do not become good overnight.

Overall this is not a very good representation of ice hockey as a sport, at least I hope not. It appears to be an excuse for young men to knock the hell out of each other while being encouraged by their parents.

The real story is encapsulated within the last three episodes and it is strong stuff, but ultimately disappointing and frustrating because in the end the guilty get away with everything and the innocent are the ones who suffer which is ironic considering the amount of political correctness and diversity that is included and seems mandatory these days.
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