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- Netflix’s new documentary Untold Raygun: Breaking Badly has finally gotten a trailer.
- The documentary, part of Netflix’s Untold docuseries, drops on the platform on September 1.
- The trailer shows breakdancer Raygun (real name Rachael Gunn) talk about reckoning with becoming the biggest moment of the 2024 Olympics.
- Netflix promises a deep diver on the ‘memes, misinformation and conspiracy theories’ around Raygun’s viral Olympic debut.
In the just-released trailer for Netflix‘s Untold Raygun: Breaking Badly, breakdancer and worldwide meme Rachael Gunn (aka Raygun) describes meeting with her therapist ahead of her viral 2024 Olympic debut in Paris. Her therapist had asked her: “What’s the worst that could happen?”
Rachael responded, “The whole world laughs at me?”
Despite her therapist deeming that as an unreasonable and irrational thought, Raygun’s worst nightmare came true and her performance in the newly-anointed breakdancing category at the 2024 Paris Olympics will, truly, forever live in infamy.
Coming to Netflix on September 1, Raygun: Breaking Badly is part of Netflix’s sport docuseries Untold where audiences get a look behind the scenes of some of sport’s biggest (and most bizarre) stars and moments.
What Will Netflix’s Raygun Documentary Be About?
Rachael Gunn has, perhaps bravely, chosen to speak to Netflix candidly about what happened to her before, during and after she kangaroo-hopped on the biggest stage breakdancing had ever seen.
“I know I’m a dorky white woman who’s an academic,” she says. “And I’m a B-girl.”
In the trailer, Gunn also admits that she enjoyed the memes early on in the Raygun discourse, but started to tap out when she thought things were getting out of hand. Conspiracy theories about how Raygun actually got to perform at the Olympics began to dominate the conversation, namely that her husband judged at least one of the competitions she would’ve had to place in to qualify for the Olympics in the first place.
We don’t only hear from Rachael, though. We also hear from those closest to her who watched her skyrocket to fame and then to infamy. The best moment? Producers asking her parents if they’d ever associated their daughter with being an Olympian growing up.
They burst out laughing. You have to respect the honesty.
What Is The Release Date for Netflix’s Raygun Documentary?
News of the documentary’s existence dropped in late July. Thankfully, fans and skeptics won’t have to wait too long to see the doco to learn straight from the kangaroo’s horse’s mouth, what the hell actually happened.
Untold Raygun: Breaking Badly drops on Netflix on September 1, so it’s perfect Tuesday evening viewing and gives you a sure-fire banger topic for workplace banter when you walk into the office the following Wednesday.
However, if your thirst for controversial, or interesting, stories around sports stars can’t hold out that long, you’ll be pleased to know Raygun: Breaking Badly is the second instalment of a three-episode drop as part of Netflix’s longstanding Untold docuseries.
On August 25, Netflix will drop Untold: The Testimony of Vince Young, which will explore the great rise and great fall of the controversial NFL star. Following Raygun’s episode, you’ll also be able to watch Untold Mr. T: I Pity The Fool, giving you a look at how a former bouncer became one of pop culture’s most instantly recognisable figures.
Untold Raygun: Breaking Badly is directed by siblings Chapman and Maclain Way, who are perhaps most famous for directing Netflix’s wildly popular Emmy-winning docuseries Wild Wild Country. Additionally, they’ve also been responsible for every Untold episode thus far, which has covered such polarising sports figures like Caitlyn Jenner and Jake Paul.
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