We Are the Champions

  • 05 Dec - 11 Dec, 2020
  • Mag The Weekly
  • TV TIME

We Are the Champions documents six widely different and very unique contests, trying to delve a little into the specifics of the competition and its history. But what the series, narrated by Rainn Wilson, really delves into are the lives of the people who participate in these contests. The first episode goes to Brockworth, in England, to cover the annual Cheese Roll. A wheel of cheese is rolled down the steep Cooper’s Hill, and a couple of dozen racers chase after it, running and tumbling down the hill. The first to reach the finish line wins. In the second episode, we go to South Carolina for a chili-pepper eating contest, featuring the Carolina Reaper, an off-the-charts hot pepper bred by a farmer named Ed Currie. Participants from the US, England and Australia are profiled, and we see them consuming peppers in 13 different rounds of increasing heat. The other four episodes document competitions in fantasy hairstyling, frog jumping, dog dancing and yo-yo. How do we know that We Are the Champions treat these competitions with respect? It’s the lavish photography and direction, for one thing. It’s also Wilson’s narration; the fact that his voice can’t help but be funny adds that slight bit of a winking acknowledgement that what’s on the screen is a bit silly.

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