Monster Factory

Apple TV, out now “Professional wrestling is an eclectic melting pot of misfits,” says coach Danny Cage. That’s the appeal of this documentary series which follows the aspiring grapplers at the titular New Jersey wrestling school. They’re a varied and usually endearing bunch, who got into the wrestling game for various reasons: one uses it as a salve for his crippling anxiety, another as a means of calming his Tourette’s syndrome. Cage has a striking record of helping his students reach the top but, needless to say, there are many dramas along the way.