Senna
Rohan Naahar
The Indian Express
Spectacularly silly, Netflix’s big-budget mini-series is the cinematic equivalent of a flat tyre
Expensive-looking but shoddily written, Netflix's biographical drama about Ayrton Senna is among the streamer's most disappointing shows of the year.
If nobody were to speak in the new Netflix show Senna, it would immediately warrant at least two extra stars. But each time any of its wafer-thin characters opens their mouths, you’re likely to be overcome by an intense desire to pump the breaks and make a pit stop, or perhaps rewatch Asif Kapadia’s seminal documentary on the subject. Based on the life and career of the legendary Brazilian Formula One driver Ayrton Senna, the six-part biographical drama is flat, uninteresting, and most criminally, boring. It is perhaps the least effective way in which his extraordinary career, and lasting influence, could’ve been commemorated.