Wyliefan
Ubering juniors against my will
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Ashley's tweeting the show now.
She's not threading her tweets, so just scroll through. Http://twitter.com/ashwagner2010

Wagner said she actually auditioned for the part and was turned down.Watched the whole thing during one long travel day. The heroine reminded me more
of Ashley Wagner than of Tessa. It is melodramatic but also great fun. Though they tried to introduce as many hot button issues as possible, they are all true to life. The show is more about dealing with manic depression than skating but I think it is a great reminder that life happens even as people strive for excellence. As
long as there are not too many glaring mistakes about skating, I would not care... the decade of watching movies about music trained me that filmmaking is almost always approximate.
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Kudos to no spotlights at qualifying comps like most cheesy skating shows.
This one made me chuckleAshley's tweeting the show now.She's not threading her tweets, so just scroll through. Http://twitter.com/ashwagner2010
Maybe she thought that if she has a fall from lift, then she will stop stressing about the fall she had before, because the one from the lift is worse. Suddenly she may realise that actually the past fall was not as bad as it could have been (relatively speaking). All she needs to recover is to have so called ‘recovery fall’ from lift.I still wonder why a tall singles skater suffering from PTSD after a traumatic fall would ever choose to become a pairs skater.
According to imdb, he was Justin Skating Double, Jenn's Skating Coach, and Daniel in six episodes:
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This show is dramatic and funny. I am enjoying it though the skating details aren’t very realistic
... Scodelario's character Kat had four skating doubles throughout the 10 episodes. Her jump double was Kim Deguise Léveillée, a Canadian skater and coach who was the 2014 junior national champion. Léveillée was also the skating double for Kat's sister Serena. Kat's regular skating double was Michelle Long, another Canadian skater. Two women also played Kat's pairs skating double. In episodes 3 and 4, Elizabeth Putnam did the pair skating as Kat. Putnam is a two-time Canadian bronze medalist in pairs skating with her partner Sean Wirtz. In episodes 7 and 10, Evelyn Walsh was Kat's pairs double.
Kaetlyn Osmond was not in Spinning Out (she jumps/rotates clockwise, BTW).
Article excerpt from: https://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/th...ting-drama-whos-watching.106641/#post-5718192
I haven't watched so I defer to you on that one.Surely Kaetlyn does appear in an exhibition clip in the show's opening title sequence!![]()
Comment from the Globe and Mail:
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Why can’t we have a decent TV drama about figure skating?
Netflix’s Spinning Out blatantly rips off the look and style of Tessa Virtue, and it’s very soapy and tritewww.theglobeandmail.com
I feel like if they made the Grishuk/Usova/Zhulin/Navka drama into a TV show, reviewers would complain it was soapy and trite.Nothing beats the actual skating season itself for the best tv drama.
It would rate its socks off too.I feel like if they made the Grishuk/Usova/Zhulin/Navka drama into a TV show, reviewers would complain it was soapy and trite.![]()
It would rate its socks off too.
No, I mentioned that early in watching it, OMG look it's a blonde Moir!Is it wrong to say that by the end of it that Justin (is that his name?) was beginning to look like Scott Moir?.
I feel like he's missing the point entirely.Comment from the Globe and Mail:
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Why can’t we have a decent TV drama about figure skating?
Netflix’s Spinning Out blatantly rips off the look and style of Tessa Virtue, and it’s very soapy and tritewww.theglobeandmail.com
Comment from the Globe and Mail:
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Why can’t we have a decent TV drama about figure skating?
Netflix’s Spinning Out blatantly rips off the look and style of Tessa Virtue, and it’s very soapy and tritewww.theglobeandmail.com
Is it wrong to say that by the end of it that Justin (is that his name?) was beginning to look like Scott Moir?.
"It’s fair to say that Tessa Virtue is an admired and beloved national icon in Canada. The now retired ice dancer hauled in medals and championship wins with Scott Moir. As we all know, they had this aura, this magnetism, as performers and athletes, and we were enchanted.
Thus, it’s rather odd to see Virtue’s personal and professional style, from her hair, costumes and the gaze on her face – you know that gaze – mimicked, adapted and embraced, without acknowledgment, in a new figure skating-drama series on Netflix. It’s a bit outrageous, actually. The matter raises two issues. First, what the heck is going on with this blatant mimicry, and second, why can’t we have a figure-skating drama that’s actually captivating and good?"
Hey now, that's a bit harsh. The series is definitely 'captivating,' if not necessarily wholesome and 'good' for us. It's about eating a bucketful of popcorn, sharing some guffaws, enjoying some inside jokes, rolling eyes at the inaccuracies, and nodding heads about what they do get right. It's just having a bit of fun after all with some high drama, despite the inaccuracies.
Hmmm, a lot of fans in this thread have mentioned the same regarding the Tessa references. Ummm, but please don't shoot me because I didn't necessarily get those references/homages, or rip-offs if you prefer.I'm an admirer of V/M, but I'm just not that knowledgeable about Tessa's mannerisms, habits, off-ice personality, or her real-life story. Nor do I think the majority of the general audience, aside from Canadians and diehard V/M ubers, will notice any of the Tessa similarities.
Copying of Tessa's costumes seems like a compliment in any case.
Having just read AdaRipp's memoir and now listening to Adam read his memor, Beautiful on the Outside, I think his book and his reading of it drive home just how surreal the world of figure skating actually is and can be for most skaters. It's life on a different scale in a world that's more than a bit slightly mad as f' in the first place. Kat moves away from home to live with her coach. In a real life figure skating drama: After living with relatives, skating friends' families, and babysitting his own brothers and sisters on the rare occasions he was living at home, Adam eventually moves in with his coach, before later leaving her for a top coach and more rigorous training which put Adam's career in top level overdrive. What a journey he's had. There are so many untold fascinating, uplifting, andfigure skating tales to be told.
Now when I think about it, sure. Plus, is the filmmaker Canadian? The series is also apparently filmed in Canada with lots of Canadian doubles, actors, etc. So it makes sense that a bit of the story or flavor of iconic Canadian champion skaters is drawn from. Albeit the film's characters are pairs skaters, and V//M are the major fabulous ice dancers on the planet. I suppose real-life ice dance has more than enough drama. So much that it might not transfer too well to a Netflix series.
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