
We get to know the players, their families and the emotional baggage they carried with them deep into that cave. Netflix and SK Global won exclusive rights to the Wild Boars soccer team’s story in a deal secured by their country’s government. 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.
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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.

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. Thai Cave Rescue – with its amusingly basic title that seems engineered for the best SEO results – fares pretty well, despite the redundancies.
