To The Lake is on Netflix, one season, released in 2019, but startling parallels with covid pandemic. Available in Russian with subs or English dubs. Verisimilitude in every scene. The Barrier is similar but in Spanish, with a military dictatorship exploiting their pandemic. There’s also a new flick out in Dutch about Anne Frank from the POV of her best friend. You can watch all that, and the 4th Season of Cobra Kai, among other things. Or you can watch the Genocide Games, in which immoral and amoral athletes think they are impressing everyone by running around in the snow doing stuff in an evil, corrupt dictatorship bent on world domination.
Full disclosure: I do Chinese martial arts to stay/get in shape, love their musical language, profound philosophers, beautiful writing, and delicious cuisine. I even am competent eating with chopsticks, and used to have wicked thoughts about the jyok sing secretary who used to work in the cubical next to mine. But the PRC sucks.
I remember when we (Americans) took pride in kicking Soviet and Eastern Bloc (mainly East Germany) a$$ at the Olympics rather than kowtowing to the evil empire of the day. The Olympics were a “friendly” extension of the Cold War.
That’s how I feel about these Red Chinese Olympics. I hope we beat them at everything!