Around the start of the fifth season of Vice’s wrestling series Dark Side of the Ring this spring, I was ready to declare that the series had run its course.
It's normally a hacky device for a biography to take the position that "this isn't really about its subject- it's actually about America," but 'Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America' somehow pulls it off.
Due to the proliferation of streaming services, and also the pandemic pushing a whole new class of movies to video on demand channels, there's been a sudden glut of documentaries in the late summer and early fall.