Stylish and darkly funny (think if I, tonya were a documentary). The actual storytelling is pretty clearly slanted toward "Elena and Anton couldn't have possible won fairly" from the Western interviewees, and there's a case to be made that that's not unassailably true. But the corruption is very clearly presented and absolutely damning. (After all, it's possible to cheat on behalf of someone would could have won on their merits!)
Extremely relevant to the current state of FS judging, too. They instituted IJS to stop this stuff, but now judges just fudge the numbers to explain away politicking and national bias. I hope they show trailers for this before and after every FS event during the Olympics! (I think it's their last contract year of figure skating TV coverage, isn't it? Why not watch it all burn?)
DYING for episode 4!
Extremely relevant to the current state of FS judging, too. They instituted IJS to stop this stuff, but now judges just fudge the numbers to explain away politicking and national bias. I hope they show trailers for this before and after every FS event during the Olympics! (I think it's their last contract year of figure skating TV coverage, isn't it? Why not watch it all burn?)
DYING for episode 4!