5/10
Artificially Memorable
12 May 2023
This is a reality TV series from Netflix all about a company that auctions sports memorabilia. I don't know why I started to watch this, it is not really the kind of thing that I like any more. I think the problem with this whole show is not connected to the show itself, it's connected to this market. These are really rich people, and they're spending a lot of money on things like Pokémon cards from the 1990s. The show also highlights different auctions of different sports memorabilia, and these are things like game worn jerseys and game worn shoes. These are just pieces of equipment, cloth or a little piece of rubber. The only meaning that's attached to it is what we give it. I don't understand why somebody would want some shoes that a basketball player played in once, or a jersey that they wore in one half of the game. It doesn't make any sense to me. They show an auction for a jersey that was worn by Jackie Robinson for one season, so we know that he wore this jersey during this season, and it's a very old school baseball jersey, thick cotton and there's like some blood of Jackie Robinson's on it, and it was being auctioned, and it could have been sold for 7.5 million. I understand why that particular piece of sports memorabilia is so expensive because it has a lot of history, it wasn't just worn one time and Jackie Robinson, of course, is a very historical figure in baseball. All of that makes sense but some random player? I think that's my problem with this whole industry, the false memorabilia creation versus what is actually memorable. If you like this kind of thing you could give it a watch, it has some very interesting personalities in it, but for myself I felt that it was kind of something to have on in the background.
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