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100 Foot Wave Crashes to Shore
The surfing docuseries’ wistful third season feels like a definitive ending, if not for the show itself than at least for its mercurial protagonist.
100 Foot Wave ’s third season rubs shoulders with a number of other stories in this space — think Michael Jordan’s teammates talking about his nearly sociopathic competitive spirit in The Last Dance; or in the fictional realm, Poker Face devoting two separate episodes to aging sportsmen — and it’s curious about the way extreme specialization and success can lead, once they’re gone, to bone-deep solitude and rangy aimlessness. Other moments are more downbeat, like when the formerly close, nearly siblinglike surfers Justine DuPont and Tony Laureano end their professional partnership, or when all the Portugal regulars throw flowers into Nazaré’s waves to mourn Brazilian legend Marcio Freire’s death there in January 2023. And the series delivers its wildest sequence yet in this season’s third episode, when McNamara, Cotty, DuPont, Chumbo, and a few other surfers travel 100 miles off the California shore to Cortes Bank, a highly isolated location where surfing is extra-dangerous because there’s no nearby land.
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