Netflix: Tour de France Unchained

Only episode one up to now...

Its literally Drive-To-Survice of cycling - identical format, they have done Golf, Cricket etc in the past few years.

Its really good - beautifully filmed in 4. Worth watching on the big tv not just your phone etc - lots of stunning vistas and bright colours, sweary team managers, horrofic crashes and gore. Really enjoying it (Ep5/8 here).

Been enjoying it too. Good to see some of the before and after race moments, reflecting on a win or what might have been. My main takeaways so far:

• WVA is a beast (as if we didn't know)
• Pidcock's descent was flipping awesome
• The French teams are as passionate as you might expect
• Massive respect to pro cyclists - it's a hell of a tough job with a lot of risk

I am enjoying some aspects of it, but they focus way way too much on the grim/gory crashes.  You could watch an episode and think that is all that happens.

It is also very "reality TV" every episode has a goodie and a baddie, some conflict and a present tense interview with the character.

And the dramatic music and cheesy over-dubbing is going to drive me bonkers, I think it is the same actors who did the Korean show Physical 100.

I will still watch it.

Pidcock’s descent was flipping awesome

Totally. Saw that one last night and I don't think I'll ever tire of watching him pin it down that road.

Yep, completed it. Love it.

I thought they captured the excitment of the tour really well.

Don't we all watch the ITV4 hightlights for the crashes, and the finishes anyway?!

Thanks for the heads-up! I have seen it come up on Netlflix, but wasn't sure if I'd invest the time. Now I will.

It is also very “reality TV” every episode has a goodie and a baddie, some conflict and a present tense interview with the character.

And the dramatic music and cheesy over-dubbing is going to drive me bonkers, I think it is the same actors who did the Korean show Physical 100.

They also edit it to make dramatic scenes that just didn't happen in real life. When WvA asked about joining the breakaway instead of protecting Vingegaard, there wouldn't have been an awkward silence on the bus, he would have been told yes or no. His job is to do certain things. They did this with Drive to Survive as well, generating conflict where there was none.

We watched it in French with English subtitles last night, and it was much better. No ridiculous video game overdubs or terrible 'actor' voices.

Just a reminder some crashes have serious consequences....

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RIP Gino

Halfway through and so far impressed with what nice guys the cyclists seem to be. Loving EF more and INEOS less as time goes by!!

Really enjoyed it and as above got to love EF more and Marc Madiot of FDJ comes across as being lovely.  It's a great addition to watching the tour and reading sites such as INRNG

Really enjoying it so far (two episodes in) - def only watch it in french with english subtitles tho. More than 50% of the time they're speaking english anyway.

We've renamed it ride to survive in our house!

I didn't think to check if there was a subtitled version. The terrible dubbing ruined it a bit for me.

There's a dubbed version? Glad I avoided that.

What do you make of it?

I'm only 1 ahead of you.

Dubbing is hateful thanks for the heads up you can watch in French.

Enjoyable in a Drive to Survive fabricated melodrama kind of way (episode 3) and has reminded me that pro road racing is kind of worth watching when highlights are well put together.

I’m really enjoying it. The sound effects make it much more exciting and the way it’s filmed gives you a great impression of the speed these guys ride at. 10/10 for making road cycling cool.

I'm enjoying it. It's not often you get to see an elite road cyclist bottle-feeding a goat wearing full team lycra, the rider that is, not the goat.

Really good, really enjoying it too! Just yesterday watched the Pogacar VS Vingegaard (well his team) battle. Some of the finest racing I’ve ever seen on the tour

Dubbing doesn't bother me - but I'm 'watching' on the turbo during Zwift sessions and my eyesight is too rubbish to read the subtitles without glasses 🤣🤣🤣

Oh that’s the only issue! The dubbing, you have a soigneur screaming for joy in French and the dubbing so muted from an English man going “yes great” in the most unemotional fashion. Don’t understand why the dubber couldn’t give it some oomph!

Its literally Drive-To-Survice of cycling

I just started to watch this, as I have no interest in motor racing and I thought it might give me some insight into aspects that I have been missing. So far my impression is that drivers are a bunch of assholes. Maybe I'm biased 🙂

Some of the race action has been dramatised to make it look more important than it really was too, especially in the GC.

The over dubbing reminds me of that in Eurotrash in the 1990's

Some of the race action has been dramatised to make it look more important than it really was too, especially in the GC.

I've listened to a couple of interviews with the producer - he said they are there to tell stories, not provide a highlights show. The whole opening TT in episode 1 is a prime example, the EF rider (Stefan Bissegger) was really early so there was no real story vs the winner.

It's certainly aimed more at people who aren't really into road cycling - I could remember the outcome of pretty much every stage they featured so there was no tension or drama. However, I enjoyed some of the behind the scenes content and think it's a great series to show road racing to a wider audience.

Just finished it and really enjoyed it. As above, it’s not highlights it’s entertainment.

Came here to winge about the dubbing, found out there's a subtitled version, result 🙂