Netflix's Who Killed The Montreal Expos Needed One Change To Be An All-Star Documentary

Netflix's Who Killed the Montreal Expos?: One Key Change Needed for an All-Star Documentary

In recent years, Netflix has offered some outstanding sports documentaries. From the revealing The Comeback: 2004 Boston Red Sox to the popular Quarterback docuseries, these titles have provided countless hours of engaging content.

Given this track record, you might expect that I was completely impressed by the new Netflix original, Who Killed the Montreal Expos?, released in 2025 ahead of the World Series. Unfortunately, that wasn’t the case.

Strong Points of the Documentary

Jean-François Poisson’s film deeply explores the rise and gradual decline of Montreal’s National League team, the Expos. The documentary covers nearly 40 years of history—highlighting the good times, the struggles, and the disappointments—within just over 90 minutes.

It successfully presents the team’s significance in Montreal, Quebec, and Canada, while offering a heartfelt portrayal of the players who became like family over time.

Room for Improvement

Despite these strengths, there is one major change that could have elevated the documentary to an all-star status. Unlike the franchise’s slow undoing, this single improvement could have saved the film in my view. The project would have benefited greatly from being a multi-part series rather than a single, condensed feature.

“I have to give it to Jean-François Poisson and his team for finding a way to chronicle the nearly 40-year history of the Montreal Expos – the good, the bad, the really bad, and the ugly – in a little more than 90 minutes.”

Summary

While Who Killed the Montreal Expos? offers a heartfelt and comprehensive overview, expanding it into a multi-part series would have truly done justice to the team's complex story.

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Cinemablend Cinemablend — 2025-11-02

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