Netflix's Losers highlights athletes who have lost in high-profile fashion

The Hollywood Reporter

"I have to assume it's a glorious coincidence that Netflix is premiering the new sports documentary series Losers on March 1, which happens to be the 25th anniversary of the release of Beck's iconic Mellow Gold," says Daniel Fienberg. "The breakout single off that album was, of course, the genre-bending anthem 'Loser,' a song that mixes comedy and defiance and a killer hook in the name of reclaiming the 'loser' identification. Without exactly emulating or evoking Beck's stream-of-consciousness profound nonsense, Netflix's Losers has a similar goal. The eight-part series is executive produced and directed by Mickey Duzyj and focuses on eight so-called losers from across the world of global sports and recontextualizes both their failures and how their lives after failure defied their primary image."