The best sports story you’ll encounter this weekend is not at the Olympics
by Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times
Jul 23, 2021
4 minutes
“100 Foot Wave,” which began Sunday on HBO and will continue for another five weekly episodes, is (mostly) the vividly told, highly engaging and idiosyncratic story of Garrett McNamara, surfer, and his quest to ride the biggest waves possible. It’s also the story of a place, the people who live there, the people who came there, and the surf that breaks there. If you are in the market for a docuseries that has nothing to do with crime or cults — well, there is a cult, briefly — and may leave you feeling better than worse about the human animal, this could be your wave.
Assembled by director Chris Smith (“Operation Varsity Blues”) from years’ worth of material from a great
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