THE UNDEFEATED
Reelz Channel, 8:00 p.m. ET
It’s no accident that this 2011 documentary, pulling extensively from Sarah Palin’s audio-book reading of her memoir, Going Rogue, shows up tonight on Reelz, one day after Game Change, a dramatization based, in part, on a book covering Palin’s run on the 2008 Republican presidential ticket, premiered on HBO. But it does make it especially interesting in context, as a valuable “compare and contrast” exercise. Filmmaker Stephen K. Bannon uses Palin’s own words, memories and opinions to frame this political biography – which is most illuminating at the start (with old childhood movies of Palin, and an incendiary compendium of reaction to Palin by comics and political pundits). By the end, though, the film’s uncritical viewpoint is so pervasive and persistent, it extends to the fact-denying title – an odd name for a biography about a vice presidential candidate who, in a word, lost.