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From: LoneClone	12/17/2022 5:02:58 PM
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Maradona: Blessed Dream imdb.com I figured this series would be a good companion to watching the actual World Cup, and it was, rather confusingly. Why confusing? It’s the structure of the script. The series begins with Maradona ending up in hospital in a coma at age 40 after a cocaine binge. Then we enter into an extended flashback that takes up much of the first nine episodes that starts with Diego as a little kid and runs through the opening scenes where he ends up in a coma. But there are also flashbacks within the larger flashback, and most confusing of all, as the characters age they sometimes ‘age’ the actors and sometimes replace them with older actors, which makes it very hard to keep everyone straight as we jump back and forth in time. Then there are the scenes of him playing. Sometimes we get archival footage, some we get simulated archival footage, and sometimes the scenes are shot as though we were there at the time, often one right after the other or even intermixed. And I might have one more level of confusion than many of you because I am old enough to have seen some of the games in real time on television. Beyond all this, do we get a good portrayal of Maradona the person? I would answer in the affirmative. He was certainly a football genius, but he was also a deeply troubled and manipulative person who would likely recognized as the greatest football player of all time, instead of just one of the greatest, if he hadn’t spent so much time and energy pursuing sex and doing drugs. Maradona: Blessed Dream is no hagiography; we see him in all his glory and with all his faults. And one more thing the series does is make us glad that Messi is so bland and uncontroversial in comparison. With Messi it is, thankfully, all about the football not the off-field controversies.

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