“The Patriots won the next two Super Bowls and officially became a Dynasty.
This franchise lapsed into hyper-relevance for the better part of 20 years.
It found itself front-and-center of American pop culture.
And it wasn’t all because they were so super awesome no one could get enough of them.
That is not lost on me.
So I went into the next two installments expecting the story to be even darker and more negative.
And holy smokes, was I not disappointed.
Episodes 5 and 6 combined have all the charm and joy of a Dostoevsky novel.
But are harder to enjoy.
At times it’s so anti-Belichick, it laspes into self-parody.
That’s not even hyperbole.
It’s objective fact.
And it took balls.
But this show seems to assume it’s somehow still controversial.
How he just moved on as if Brady Jr. wasn’t a part of the team any more.
The good news is, Episode 5 gives us plenty of that.
With locker room scenes we’ve never seen before.
Though there’s no putting a shine on the dirty sneaker that was the 2009 season.
Even I will agree that was the most underachieving, unlikeable team of the Dynasty Era.
It’s familiar ground to anyone who watched the Belichick episodes ofA Football Life.
But it’s the next episode where things get truly grim.
In a very real world sense.
It has it’s moments of hilarity.
The Hernandez stuff though?
It’s like watching the second act of a True Crime documentary.
Because this episode is very much a True Crime doc.
Which again, I’m not complaining about.
How could it be anything else?
But no one ever mentions the two touchdown game against Houston.”
But it makes for a very difficult 40 or so minutes.
Brandon Lloyd trying to process all of Hernandez' strange moods.
Wes Welker describing his bizarre behaviors at practice.
Not only that the footage even exists.
But also to realize anyone really thought of him that way.
And practically all of us did.
Of course every Revisionist Historian on the planet now says otherwise.
Where do you see yourself five years from now?"
AH:“Well, I’m a big homicide guy.
I’m really, really into taking human life, which I do not value.
Also, I hope to make the Pro Bowl.”
Mr. Kraft admits he was “duped,” and I’ll raise my hand to that as well.
This one particular guy turned out to be irredeemable.
So watch it if that sort of real world horror is something you’re interested in.
For me, I’m just hoping the remaining episodes will have more fun and less awfulness.
But I don’t have my hopes up.
