Welcome to Wrexham
Our Review
The documentary that shouldn’t work and becomes genuinely moving: Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney — two actors who’d never met in person — buy Wrexham AFC, a fifth-tier Welsh football club in a working-class town, and the show follows the takeover from both sides: the Hollywood owners learning what a club means, and the town deciding whether to trust millionaires playing football-manager with their identity. The genius is that it never becomes an ego project: the camera spends as much time with the fans (the pub owner, the aging supporters who’ve watched relegation erode their town) and the players as with the stars.
Seasons track the real arc — the first playoff heartbreak, the promotion (the town in tears), the celebrity-adjacent scrutiny — and the football is shot with proper sports-doc craft. Reynolds and McElhenney’s genuine investment keeps it from being a vanity piece. It’s Sunderland ‘Til I Die with a happy ending and better jokes.
Verdict: Watch it even if you don’t like football. It’s about towns, hope, and the alchemy of belonging.