I couldn't even finish the first episode. It's just boring and lacks proper info for people just wanting to understand how this all works. There is minimal music and the progress is molasses slow. It's a lot of interviews with Vick and family members about how important his family is to him and how he wants to help them economically in the hood and how great a talent he is. It's a lot of bragging and basically making him out to be a hero. I just wanted to understand his career and his huge mistakes. This is not it. The director at the start explains that this doc is about emotional drama and about race. But I kinda figured it would be regular 30 for 30 stuff where anti-Black racism would maybe get 5 minutes in each episode. Not so. They go on and on about his race, his hood, and how White people are unfair to Black people and see them as less intelligent, and therefore Black people rarely make it to the quarterback position as it's a position for smart guys. Which is really nonsensical as just minutes prior Vick himself said he was not smart and had a hard time understanding technical football stuff. It was clear he was physically amazing, but that his intellect was quite low. And yet they anyhow make it out to be some unfair situation where guys like him are underestimated intellectually because of their skin color. A Vick is made out to be this huge hero fighting systemic racism and helping Black people. If that's the Vick you want to meet this may be for you, but you won't find it that engaging.
There are a ton of family interviews and you just keep seeing opinion after opinion with very little progress. This is just way too slow-paced. There is no lead up to the dog fighting at all. They just keep talking about his huge talent and it's a doc that is made to clean his image. And there is another episode? Come on guys, editing is key here. Why did this even get made?
A huge miss by 30 for 30. I wish they would avoid all this low-tier culture war or at least keep it to 5 minutes per episode as they did some years ago. Now it's all about "evil White people". It can amount to whining which it does here. And you are just making out fake bad guys to hail Vick as some hero he just isn't in real life. It should have been a critical doc not propaganda.