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Watched Word Wars from Netflix. Another niche community documentary in the vein of King of Kong (80s arcade game players), Hands on the Hard Body (an endurance competition to win a truck), and Wordplay (crosswords) that I've watched recently.
The norm for the genre is to show them as oddly dedicated but still basically normal good people (though King of Kong does have its villain). None of that in Word Wars, the four elite Scrabblers followed are simply presented as losers. Kind of left a dirty taste.
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