Gabriel Leone in the Netflix poster for Senna
The very first scene of Senna leads one to believe that the Netflix series will do a spectacular job of transporting viewers back to the '80s and '90s. With incredible attention to detail, the moment offers an accurate depiction of what the streets of Brazil looked like when the whole country was rooting for Ayrton Senna to win another race. But then the series goes on to make such a series of mistakes that one wonders why this story needed to be re-told.
✕ Remove Ads In order to understand why Senna became as big as he did, it's essential to understand the context of Brazil at the time. While he started to rise in the racing world, the South American country was going through one of its worst periods — a military dictatorship that lasted 21 years and officially ended in 1985.
Real-Life F1 Races Offer More Emotion Than 'Senna' Tune in to an F1 race on any given week, and there's a high chance of being pulled in by the racers' ability to maneuver such fragile cars at top speed; soon, you find yourself rooting for them without even knowing who they are. Senna is not interested in conveying the emotion of a race at all, and sometimes makes the ill-advised decision to do portions of a race in CGI, which completely removes viewers from the experience.
✕ Remove Ads This leads to Senna's biggest problem. From the start, the series tries to synthesize lower-class Brazil — and the bulk of Senna's fans — through two characters who follow Senna's career for over a decade. The problem is, those two characters remain nameless for most of the episodes, and it doesn't help that they are both the only Black characters in the story.
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