Show of the week

Icarus

Filmmaker and cyclist Bryan Fogel set out to make himself a case study in how a competitive athlete on steroids can elude detection. But then the experiment put him in touch with a better lead character: Russian physician Grigory Rodchenkov. The gleefully corrupt doctor folds Fogel right into the cheating system he devised to help Russia at the 2014 Olympics, then turns whistleblower by revealing the operation to the world and pinning blame on Vladimir Putin. The tense tale reveals deep corruption in the sports world, and builds on Putin’s dark legend. Available for streaming Friday, Aug. 4, Netflix ■