(Kinda) Weekly WatersHack
1/21/21 - HBO done did fucked up…
Shhhh…”Unlimited pancakes” isn’t all its cracked up to be…
What a missed opportunity...This was a 5-foot uphill birdie putt to win the tourney and it was pulled very hard left and pushed right at the same time. The HBO documentary “Tiger” is being heavily criticized and deservedly so, but just not for the right reasons. Yes, it is rough, but I do not think it is too rough. Tiger is no angel, and Earl is well less of an angel. What is criminal about it is how can one of the greatest, most significant, polarizing, and complicated athletes in history get a documentary that is 3.5 hours long and mostly about banging white chicks?
I have seen the “it was a slam piece on tiger” and no it was not! It was too quick to be. It does not have enough time to be a slam or a praise or anything. It is my high school mass media assignment which the teacher would have given a C for not enough detail or information. The slam piece commentary probably comes from the fact that they only thing they gave more than 6 mins to was the affair scandal. I mean when the only people you are interviewing for this are people that are jilted by Tiger and that knew him 25 years ago then of course all they can say is the bad stuff to get their attention. They were not part of anything beyond Earl and his Winnebago (gross btw). There seems to be a bit more to Tiger then just his unchecked libido. Way to miss an opportunity to dig deeper into that issue and flesh out the complexities of deep and troubling entitlement then many men seem to have an issue with. Why not have something valuable come from the negative parts.
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Was he a good dad at the time? No. A good husband? nope. Even a good person? Seems to not really be, but neither were a lot of guys. I don’t know Magic Johnson, or John Lennon, but we were able to turn their negatives into positive lessons. (We can ignore John’s and focus on the good things he did last few years of life, which is another issue btw). The Last Dance was a 10-part series and they probably could have made an equal length part two to get all the complexities of Michael Jordan, but Tiger gets 3.5 hours with random people we have never heard of and Bryant Gumbel. I am sorry, is there no clip of the Tour Championship walk-up? What will probably be the most iconic moment in golf history forever - the moment that does him the justice as an extremely flawed man (like us all) who failed and succeeded both on levels far above a normal person, but learned and came back better. One scene that we have never seen in sports the with no words, no scandals still shows all that is Tiger and his effect on the world and history not just golf. You know that stuff Earl is talking about in the beginning about him transcending the game, yeah, we HAVE a moment in time that defines that, and we left that out. You know when Rory, an amazing hall of fame golfer who has a video game namesake also, is reduced to another fan nipping at Tigers heals in the sea of Tigerdom. WE had that moment and left it out, and if it is a licensing thing or whatever further proof this doc should not have been made.
YOU cannot accurately sum up my wildly eventless life in 3.5 hours but somehow Tiger Woods you can. It failed Tiger not because it talked too much about him as a bad boy or that his dad was a parent teacher conference nightmare. It failed because it did not talk about anything at all. Why not discuss the effects of fame, or having to live under a microscope more? I mean nothing but people we do not know from 25 years ago and none of how Tiger changed the entire game of golf. We could not get JT or Rory or Butch Harmon or idk any fucking person of consequence besides Faldo to talk on this doc. I mean Tiger hasn’t had an impact, right? That is like doing a documentary on The Beatles and only getting thoughts from a guy Ringo went to elementary school with, or some bar patron who saw them once at the Cavern Club. This was one of the worst documentaries I have seen based on the subject matter, the network producing it, and over potential it had. HBO and Tiger Woods should have had us golfies in full flagstick mode, but it missed the fairway, the green and the tap in putt. Trying to stuff as many Faldo-Like cliches into this as I can. The “4” this week is the Four thumbs down this doc gets. “How Messy is your Slessy” (check it out) is a much better golf doc, my god the fact that I am saying that means the world may truly be ending….
HBO, ya done fucked up!