Sam Rega directs a Netflix documentary about Indian Americans' striking success in spelling bees. Read THR's review:
This year's Scripps National Spelling Bee, which was scheduled to take place last week, was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. COVID-19 may well have been the only force capable of preventing an Indian-American competitor from winning the contest for the 13th year in a row. Indian Americans make up about one percent of the population, but they comprise 26 of the Scripps bee's 31 most recent winners.
And at a time when there are expensive coaches for just about every conceivable activity — up to and including cheating one's way into college via Photoshopping the heads of celebrities' children onto the bodies of legitimate student-athletes — drilling for Scripps is adorably quaint.
, substantive but zippy and accessible. The first theory tackled by the director and his many talking heads — who include Hari Kondabolu, Fareed Zakaria and Sanjay Gupta, as well as a couple of previous winners of the Scripps bee, like Nupur Lala of the 2002 doc— is the essentialist idea that there is some genetic component to these Indian American triumphs.
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