December 22, 2024
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Aaron Rodgers’ Netflix Docuseries: 10 Biggest Revelations From ‘Enigma’

Logo text Who is Aaron Rodgers? It’s a complicated question and one that Netflix and directors Gotham Chopra and Liam Hughes dedicate three hours to answering in Enigma, the streamer’s revelatory new documentary series. Over the course of three episodes — “Becoming,” “Awakening” and “Reckoning” — Rodgers welcomes viewers to draw their own conclusions by inviting cameras”, — write: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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Who is Aaron Rodgers?

It’s a complicated question and one that Netflix and directors Gotham Chopra and Liam Hughes dedicate three hours to answering in Enigma, the streamer’s revelatory new documentary series. Over the course of three episodes — “Becoming,” “Awakening” and “Reckoning” — Rodgers welcomes viewers to draw their own conclusions by inviting cameras into his life in ways that seem unprecedented for an active NFL quarterback. Have you ever seen a Hall of Famer getting high on ayahuasca and contemplating what life must be like for a butterfly as it emerges from a cocoon? No? Yeah, well, same.

Produced by Religion of Sports (co-founded by NFL great Tom Brady), Skydance Sports and NFL Films and Religion of Sports, Enigma tackles the question by tracing Rodgers’ career from being selected as the 24th pick in the 2005 NFL Draft to becoming Super Bowl champ and four-time league MVP. The series also goes deep in revealing what life has been like off the field. After being anointed a superstar with his Super Bowl XLV championship as the quarterback of the Green Bay Packers, Rodgers had a series of high-profile relationships with Hollywood actresses while also confronting a family rift by way of reality TV. In more recent years, he’s become something of a lightning rod in the press for floating conspiracy theories, questioning the NFL’s COVID-19 vaccination policy and pondering a bid for the White House as a potential vice presidential candidate for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

All of the above is covered in Enigma, which dedicates a large chunk of its running time to his season-ending injury when he tore his Achilles on the fourth play of his New York Jets debut, and the subsequent (and lightning-fast) recovery process. Then there’s his relationship to spirituality and ayahuasca. Viewers not only hear him repeatedly credit the plant-based medicine for his recovery and for helping him become the man he wants to be, but they see him swallowing the liquid during intimate ceremonies as part of a three-night retreat in the Costa Rican jungle. It’s quite a journey, and there are scenes in Enigma that find Rodgers attempting to answer the question himself.

“Who am I?” he asks at one point, mulling over his success and the internal conflicts that came as a result. “Am I the football player? Am I the off-the-field guy? A lot of it is the battle of identity. I was struggling with who I was and who I wanted to be.”

Draw your own conclusions based on 10 highlights from Enigma below.

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