UNCHAINED REACTION

We asked Nick Christian to plant himself in front of the telly and binge-watch all eight episodes of Netflix's new documentary 'Tour de France: Unchained'. Does the long-anticipated show live up to the considerable hype?

- Nick Christian

Episode 1

The Grand Départ

Almost a year since the Tour de France 2022 concluded, its dramatised episodic version has landed. As an athletic spectacle we already know what will unfold over the next eight episodes - what I expect this binge to deliver is a caricatured version of the world's biggest bike race: the Tour de France, for want of more appropriate language, on steroids.