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Complete waste of time I will never get back
As you can tell, I am not Japanese and while I have visited once and I love the food, one can say I am not familiar with the culture at all.But this popped up in my Netflix feed and I was intrigued. Sumo? interesting, while I used to think of this "sport" as basic, this show changed my mind. It is an enormous amount of hard work, pain... just like any athlete from any sport.
3 things bothered me however:
1. How can one bitter old man still manipulate a sport for personal gain in recent years is still beyond me. I understand there are traditions but this was wayyy over the top.
2. Isn't there anyone willing to go see these guys battle it out in the arena? completely empty stadium made the experience rather stale.
3. Probably one of my most disappointing endings in a show.
The whole story was a 5, execution was a 4 and the ending made it a 0. Total rewatch value? Zero as well. I know it should have had the opposite effect, but this show completely switched me off from liking this sport.
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Boring as hell
I went in with low expectations and they even managed to disappoint me.The premise was really good, they had something really good as an idea but the execution was poor.
The Battles (if you can even call them that) were without real action, I could not even relate/cheer for one team. This was missing energy, and one expects a show like this to have teams put up a fight but they couldn't even fight.
I'm all for women positivity, equality but man.... give me "Something", keep me entertained, I want to CARE and I want to cheer and most of all be entertained... I wasn't.
At the end, it turned out to be too simplistic, illogical alliances and it's 5 hours of watching this show I can never get back.
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