streaming on Netflix<\/a> for subscribers.<\/p>\nWith the Toronto Blue Jays\u2019 current World Series run, baseball fever is arguably at an all-time high not just locally but across Canada. And yet, while there Blue Jays are Canada\u2019s current MLB stars, nostalgic fans know that once upon a time it was another team that brought baseball north of the border.<\/p>\n
An effervescent romance of the Montreal Expos baseball club has fascinated sports fans, historians and patriotic Canadians for decades – both the nearly four decades the team played at Montreal\u2019s Olympic Stadium, and the two since the team moved to Washington D.C.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s an understandable irony then that another big American corporation – Netflix – has led the charge in producing the new glossy documentary about the fall of the Expos in Montreal and its continuing legacy in the city still today.<\/p>\n
Perhaps the funniest part about the film Who Killed the Montreal Expos?, however, is that the film was also co-produced by Major League Baseball itself!<\/p>\n
Thankfully, the film isn\u2019t desensitized to the nasty business practices that surrounded the team in controversy, nor were any participants censored or withheld from the final cut. That means director Jean-Francois Poisson was able to effectively show contrasting opinions and perspectives on what happened to the team.<\/p>\n
Most of the run time is dedicated to a recount of the team\u2019s later history, predominantly focusing on its sale to Claude Brochu in 1991 to its final season in 2004. While the recap is captured with passion, it\u2019s a bit disappointing to have almost none of the film\u2019s research dedicated to how Montreal faced the team\u2019s departure afterwards.<\/p>\n
The historic record and its timeline in the film has tight editing and terrific interview clips from owners and players alike. What\u2019s missing is learning more about the aftermath of the Expos, which is barely covered or addressed.<\/p>\n
Poisson\u2019s film still features several outstanding and persuasive interviews in hearing from Expos heroes and villains alike – all making strong cases for who was and wasn\u2019t responsibly for the team\u2019s tumultuous finances.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s great to see a piece of Canada\u2019s history coming to Netflix\u2019s global audience, especially with a significant number of filmmakers who actually live in Montreal. I also applaud the team\u2019s decision to have an equal number of interviews take place both in English and French, highlight the cultural contrasts between the interview subjects.<\/p>\n
Any audience with a love for baseball\u2019s history in Canada will take great interest in Who Killed the Montreal Expos?, but there\u2019s also a lot to be learned and appreciated for newcomers to the sport too.<\/p>\n
At the very least, Poisson\u2019s documentary will make many Blue Jays fans yearn to add an Expos jersey to their collection.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Blue Jays fever at an all-time high, Netflix has released a timely and fascinating documentary about Canada’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,116355,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-249015","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainmentbaseballreviewsdocumentarymoviesnetflixnow-streaming","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}