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fuboTVDocumentary series tracking the dreams and worries of Wrexham, a working-class town in North Wales, UK, as two Hollywood stars (Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds) take ownership of the town’s historic yet struggling football club.
All the same, it’s hard to be churlish about the involvement of actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenny in the affairs of this spirited, tatty club – the pair seem sincere, albeit at times amusingly bewildered by the job they’ve taken on. This documentary series is at its most emotionally convincing when it jump-cuts from McElhenny and Reynolds’s luxury lives to the reality of a working-class British town full of fans to whom Wrexham AFC evidently means everything. Phil Harrison Disney+, from Thursday 25 August.
The new FX series Welcome to Wrexham may present as a feel-good sports docuseries, but there’s something unpleasant going on in this Rob McElhenney/Ryan Reynolds celebrity vehicle.They swear!), the series is uninterested in probing their motives in a serious way. And it does not seem to register any tonal gulf between telling stories about the people who live in Wrexham — for instance, a life-long resident and fan celebrating the end of his cancer treatment — and Ryan Reynolds moaning about having to spend money to fix the grass pitch.
