GENIORS ALL AROUND
Type: sports comedy
Direction: Albert Jan Vanrees and Ilse Warringa. With Eva Vangessel, Ilse Warringa, Mariana Aparicio, Leonoor Koster, Bashoe Flaak, Guido Pollemans. On Netflix
Take an amateur youth team, the volunteers who keep the structures in order and run the activities, the more or less talented kids who create groups and, above all, an army of intrusive, rude, obsessed parents from the performances of the children.
The result is a tasty comedy series that helps you reflect on distortions and drifts of contemporary youth sport.
A scene from the TV series “Parents All Around” (photo by Ashley Röttjers).
He comes from Holland and his name is Parents across the board (original title Voetbaloudersi.e. “Parents of footballers”); the events of. develop between windmills and functional sports centers a group of fierce and competitive parents who take out their frustrations and lost ambitions on their children.
The trigger is given by the arrival of Levi, son of a former professional player, who arrives in the new team accompanied by his mother Lilian. Overwhelmed by the exuberance of the other parents, in particular the volcanic Marenka (Ilse Warringa, also creator of the series), Lilian would like to leave, but is convinced to stay by her son who in the meantime bonds with other companions.
Parents across the board And a merciless and sarcastic picture of how far parents can really go to ruin the harmony of sportexperienced by the kids always and only as a game.
To laugh and reflect on the narcissism of adults in the world of sport.
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