Thai Cave Rescue

The six-part Netflix limited series Thai Cave Rescue doesn’t have it easy. How do you make the 18-day Tham Luang Nang Non ordeal captivating when the story of a dozen adolescent to teen soccer players and their coach trapped deep inside the flooded cave system has been told over and over?Thai Cave Rescue Season 1 Download.

Never mind the wall-to-wall media coverage during the incident and gruelling rescue operation just four years ago. There have already been three movies covering this terrain, including Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi’s documentary The Rescue and Ron Howard’s thrillingly restrained Thirteen Lives.Thai Cave Rescue – with its amusingly basic title that seems engineered for the best SEO results – fares pretty well, despite the redundancies. Just make sure you watch it in the native Thai audio track with subtitles instead of the awkward English dub that the Netflix platform automatically reverts to.

The series, created by Michael Russell Gunn and Dana Ledoux Miller, is not quite as elegant and gripping as Howard’s movie starring Hollywood heavyweights like Viggo Mortensen, Colin Farrell and Joel Edgerton as the divers who pulled the Wild Boars soccer team out of the cave. Thai Cave Rescue is the more exhaustive, melodramatic and occasionally heavy-handed telling that has one crucial ingredient the movies don’t: the soccer team’s perspective.Netflix and SK Global won exclusive rights to the Wild Boars soccer team’s story in a deal secured by their country’s government. We get to know the players, their families and the emotional baggage they carried with them deep into that cave. And the story is told with a sensitivity to local nuances thanks to Thai director Baz Poonpiriya and American-Thai film-maker Kevin Tancharoen, both executive producing alongside Jon M Chu (the Taiwanese American director behind Crazy Rich Asians).