Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds' football club are no longer underdogs, but the FX docuseries continues to charm, says TV critic Alan Sepinwall.
Last week, I found myself wildly cheering a play in a game that happened a year and a half ago, in a sport I had never much cared about previously, on a show that I’d ignored for nearly all of its three seasons before impulsively deciding to binge the whole thing.‘ purchase of a Welsh football club, and how their money and celebrity have helped reverse the fortunes of both the team and the town in which it plays.
In the end, it’s a rare case of the club’s luck being better than the show’s. McElhenney convinces Reynolds not to fly in for the season’s penultimate match, since two other teams would have to lose their own matches, in addition to a Wrexham win, for automatic promotion to happen that day. But then Wrexham wins, their rivals both lose, and Rob and Ryan are stuck watching a live feed in separate locations back in the States, commiserating by phone about the bad choice they made to stay home.
Another instance of the show understanding how people will respond to it is how frequently it acknowledges that Ryan is much richer and more famous than Rob, so that even though this whole thing was Rob’s idea, Ryan is always the one who gets the biggest response and the most credit. An incredible episode from early in the second season parallels the story of Millie Tipping — a teen Wrexham supporter with autism, who watches games with ear baffles on to help with her sensory issues — with that of the team’s star goal scorer, “Super” Paul Mullin, whose young son Albi was recently diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum. The series has explored the 1934 mining disaster that killed 266 local men.
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