The story is not good. It wouldn't sell as a novel, you wouldn't read it, so no amount of dressing up with music/cinematography/acting would hide that fact... Except they also didn't dress it well.
The flaws in the story is not because of a "lack fo understanding of football" - (look at Goal 3, currently rated 3.3/10 on IMDb) or the presence of females in the story. The story just sucks. It's more like Grey's Anatomy than anything, but done worse and much later. What worked in 2005 for Grey's won't work now. The standards are much higher. The show creators have to beat the best shows of today, take it to the next level, not emulate and copy a show from 2005. Even Grey's can't do it - they went from ranked 5th in ratings to ranked 32, from 22 million viewers to 8. Why would you emulate that show?
Well, they did, and that's where we are at right now.
The football is sort of peripheral in the story. It's about someone with a disabled mum, someone with a parent in prison, drugs, gangs, gambling, smuggling, missing children, etc. I'm not a screenwriter so I don't know where they went wrong. Maybe too many stories at the same time? Maybe the storylines didn't have enough time to breathe?
One thing is for certain. The events were not believable - they were presented in a soapy, non-serious Grey's Anatomy type of way.
I don't recommend it.
The flaws in the story is not because of a "lack fo understanding of football" - (look at Goal 3, currently rated 3.3/10 on IMDb) or the presence of females in the story. The story just sucks. It's more like Grey's Anatomy than anything, but done worse and much later. What worked in 2005 for Grey's won't work now. The standards are much higher. The show creators have to beat the best shows of today, take it to the next level, not emulate and copy a show from 2005. Even Grey's can't do it - they went from ranked 5th in ratings to ranked 32, from 22 million viewers to 8. Why would you emulate that show?
Well, they did, and that's where we are at right now.
The football is sort of peripheral in the story. It's about someone with a disabled mum, someone with a parent in prison, drugs, gangs, gambling, smuggling, missing children, etc. I'm not a screenwriter so I don't know where they went wrong. Maybe too many stories at the same time? Maybe the storylines didn't have enough time to breathe?
One thing is for certain. The events were not believable - they were presented in a soapy, non-serious Grey's Anatomy type of way.
I don't recommend it.