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Message: [QUOTE="ZooCougar, post: 5290436, member: 296"] Earnhardt on Prime. This is a four part docuseries probably made to couple with NASCAR coverage on Prime, which I haven't watched but I hear is actually pretty good. If you don't know who Dale Earnhardt is, then don't worry you don't need to like NASCAR to appreciate this. If you're expecting 4 hours of people extolling his greatness then you'll be surprised. The man wasn't perfect and they cover that in great detail mostly by accounts from Dale Earnhardt Jr. Kelly and Kerry Earnhardt. Dale Jr's company actually produced the show with Ron Howard and Brian Grazer. The honesty was refreshing. The first two episodes are as good as anything you will ever see. My only criticism is that it's too good of a show to be disrupted by ads and they couldn't help themselves. It's Ken Burns level stuff. Dale pretty much put everything on the line to make it and his personal life paid for it. In the process he emerges as this kind of anti-hero upsetting the status quo of some older drivers. The footage of the races is extraordinary. There is so much footage and interviews that you likely have never seen. By the end of the second episode he has 7 championships and he is the richest guy in the sport. Episode 3 is mostly about him and his kids and the business side probably diluted his driving. He also clearly didn't have cars that could keep up with Jeff Gordon every week (although his team should have) and he pushes himself even harder which impacts his physical well being. Episode 4 is about his death. Which is really kind of depressing. Interesting that despite the fact that I watched the 2001 Daytona 500 and until I saw this I never knew that his hood suffered damage which cause him to spin out. I always thought he made contact with Marlin and then hit the wall. I will say that when I saw that wreck, I knew he was gone. It was one of the craziest endings to a race before that and it got worse. I really think that was the beginning of the end of NASCAR's prominence. They just never filled the void that he left. [/QUOTE]

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