It opens, as it did last year, with hyperbole. "Everybody should kill somebody to win a stage," Patrick Lefevere says, in quite bad taste. "Accidents happen, you'd better get used to it," Jasper Philipsen adds. There is the footage of crashes, of near misses. We are told that the Tour de France is the toughest thing ever, that it is everything, that it means more.
Welcome to season two of Tour de France: Unchained, from Netflix. So far, so similar to the first year. I liked the first season, without being blown away. It was an interesting watch, without feeling like something that had to be seen. However, season two builds on a solid format and turns it into something I really think all cycling fans and beyond should watch. It is gripping.
