Simone Biles Rising: Season 1

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Simone Biles: Rising

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Netflix | Season Premiere Date: July 17, 2024

Summary: The four-part docuseries follows gymnast Simone Biles as she works to return for the 2024 Paris Olympics Games.

Genre(s): Sports, Reality, Documentary

Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E4. I will rise
Air Date: October 25, 2024
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S1:E3. I will defy the odds
Air Date: October 25, 2024
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S1:E2. I will not be broken
Air Date: July 17, 2024

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The Guardian Rebecca Nicholson

Jul 17, 2024

Episode one is perhaps a little broad. It gives the impression of a compromise between all that intimate access and true candour, but, by episode two, the series has settled in comfortably. .... It picks up as she prepares to return to competitive international gymnastics and goes back to explore the “very military” system that fostered her talents. Read full review

The Observer (UK) Ammar Kalia

Sep 10, 2024

Packed as it is with jaw-dropping slow-motion footage of Biles’s vaults and leaps, it’s impossible to come away from Rising without rooting for this astounding woman, who has dominated her sport for a decade. Read full review

Aramide Tinubu

Jul 17, 2024

The four-part docuseries is an elegantly paced and vulnerable account that infuses the history of gymnastics with Biles’ personal legacy– which has been hard-won but mesmerizing to watch. Read full review

Hannah Giorgis

Jul 17, 2024

Some of the documentary’s most important scenes describe the climate that encouraged Biles and other young gymnasts to endure painful injuries and accept mistreatment from authority figures. .... Raisman is one of many gymnasts who appear in the new series, offering thoughtful perspectives on the unique hazards of their sport and what it means that Biles acknowledged the trauma of Nassar’s predation and the ensuing investigation. Read full review

Scott Hines

Jul 19, 2024

Not every athlete is worthy of a documentary, but Simone Biles isn’t just any athlete. Simone Biles: Rising is a well-crafted document of one of the best to ever do it. Read full review

G. Allen Johnson

Jul 17, 2024

Some of the most moving moments in the documentary, though, stem not from the thrills of competition or Biles facing the camera, but quiet moments of her normal life, such as she and Owens working together to build their dream house outside of Houston, a metaphor for an impressive life still under construction. Read full review

Richard Roeper

Jul 17, 2024

This is a valuable piece of documentary filmmaking, not only for its celebration of the amazing career of the 27-year-old Biles, but for shining a light on the mental health issues that can be at least as damaging and problematic for an athlete’s life as any physical injuries. Read full review

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Series Overview
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: July 17, 2024
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  S1:E4. I will rise
  Air Date: October 25, 2024
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  S1:E3. I will defy the odds
  Air Date: October 25, 2024
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  S1:E2. I will not be broken
  Air Date: July 17, 2024
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  S1:E1. Write me down in history...
  Air Date: November 30, -0001