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Podcast: Closer Look
Episode: ‘Disappointing’: New Netflix series sounds a lot like the Humboldt Broncos tragedy
Description: Eight years ago, the entire country mourned alongside the tight-knit community of Humboldt, Saskatchewan.A bus carrying the local junior hockey team — the Humboldt Broncos — collided with a transport truck on April 6, 2018, killing 16 people and injuring 13 others.Last week, Netflix released a teaser about a new fictional series that sounds eerily familiar: a team in a working-class town where hockey is everything — until a bus crash kills a group of young players and their coach.The show’s concept doesn’t sit well with a lot of people, including some who lost loved ones in th...