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- 2024
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- Netflix
- 2024
- TV-MA
- Netflix
Summary The four-part docuseries follows gymnast Simone Biles as she works to return for the 2024 Paris Olympics Games.
- 2024
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 2024
- TV-MA
- Netflix
Simone Biles Rising
Season 1 Premiere: Jun 17, 2024
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Summary The four-part docuseries follows gymnast Simone Biles as she works to return for the 2024 Paris Olympics Games.
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Not every athlete is worthy of a documentary, but Simone Biles isn’t just any athlete. Simone Biles: Rising is a well-crafted document of one of the best to ever do it.
Genuinely inspiring.
Some of the documentary’s most important scenes describe the climate that encouraged Biles and other young gymnasts to endure painful injuries and accept mistreatment from authority figures. .... Raisman is one of many gymnasts who appear in the new series, offering thoughtful perspectives on the unique hazards of their sport and what it means that Biles acknowledged the trauma of Nassar’s predation and the ensuing investigation.
The four-part docuseries is an elegantly paced and vulnerable account that infuses the history of gymnastics with Biles’ personal legacy– which has been hard-won but mesmerizing to watch.
Episode one is perhaps a little broad. It gives the impression of a compromise between all that intimate access and true candour, but, by episode two, the series has settled in comfortably. .... It picks up as she prepares to return to competitive international gymnastics and goes back to explore the “very military” system that fostered her talents.
Some of the most moving moments in the documentary, though, stem not from the thrills of competition or Biles facing the camera, but quiet moments of her normal life, such as she and Owens working together to build their dream house outside of Houston, a metaphor for an impressive life still under construction.
This is a valuable piece of documentary filmmaking, not only for its celebration of the amazing career of the 27-year-old Biles, but for shining a light on the mental health issues that can be at least as damaging and problematic for an athlete’s life as any physical injuries.
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Girl talk and Idol worshipping Simone for over an hour. Had to turn it off. Sad because Simone is one of my favorite athletes all time. If only Netflix made this into an actual sports documentary so men could watch it. Maybe in the future they will make a team gymnastics one where its actually about the sport and their daily living routines leading up to qualifiers, would be 10/10.
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Production Company:
- Olympic Channel
- Religion of Sports
Initial Release Date: Jun 17, 2024
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-MA
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