My wife and I have been watching
Welcome to Wrexham over the past few weeks, and last night we arrived at the end of season two, which made great use of television’s unique formal features, particularly the length of time spent with a series’ characters and milieu.
Wrexham, of course, is a documentary about Hollywood stars Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds’ purchase of the Wrexham Red Dragons, a somewhat hard-luck soccer team in North Wales, and their attempts to improve the team and restore it to its former glory. Wrexham had once been a part of the Championship League (the division just below the Premiere League, where all of England’s top teams play), but after 40 years of trials and tribulations, Wrexham has been relegated (or demoted) multiple times, winding up in the National League, the fifth highest division, but also the one that is the toughest to be promoted out of and into a higher division.
