“I wanted to write you a glad song, but I didn’t have time, so I wrote you a sad one”

It’s always a risk to start writing with someone else’s quote, since that person probably said it better than you ever could. Still, Franz Nicolay’s bitter parody of Mark Twain may be the best way to sum up the history of the Montreal Expos, a franchise that defined a culture yet never could quite make it. That’s the very subject explored in Who Killed The Montreal Expos, Netflix’s latest sports documentary.

America’s premiere streaming service has an impossible task — Romans could not understand never being Roman, even less so being Quebecois. The unique sub-national identity that makes up some quarter of the country is deeply explored by director Jean-François Poisson, and indeed choosing a Quebec fil

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