Words + Pictures Chief Connor Schell On The “Ultimate Prism” Of Prime Video Anthology Docuseries ‘Game 7’

The animating concept of Game 7, the anthology Prime Video docuseries from Words + Pictures, is right there in the title.

In a best-of-seven series to determine champions in the NHL, NBA and Major League Baseball, moments in the final game (whenever it occurs) are instantly memorable due to the intensely pressurized circumstances. Any New Yorker who was alive in 1994 can tell you where they were when the Rangers ended a 54-year drought and won the Stanley Cup. Even-longer-suffering Chicago Cubs fans survived extra innings and a rain delay on the road to see their team win its first World Series in 108 years.

“It is the ultimate prism through which you can view the whole experience of sports and, by extension, how sports affects the broader culture,” Words + Pictures founder and CEO Connor Schell told Deadline in an interview. “The stakes are, by definition,

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