stampApple TV+'s new golf comedy starring Owen Wilson, is not the tagline "Fit" shrink and Ted Lasso. "It doesn't need: between cute but poignant emotions, discovered family ensembles, focusing on flawed but often non-toxic male role models and overall daddy TV vibe, there's no doubt who its target audience should have been."
But familiarity is not necessarily a drawback when it comes to watching comfort, and certainly not a rookie who can play games and old pros. While not, at this point, ambitious, as its actual slogan ("large swing") may suggest, its guaranteed tone, fat-free storytelling, especially the winning actor may give stamp Everything you need to grow it into the next big crowd delighter on the platform.
Bottom line "Shrink" and "Ted Lasso" fans, this is for you.
airdate: Wednesday, June 4 (Apple TV+)
Throw: Owen Wilson, Peter Dager, Lillia Kay, Mariana Treviño, Marc Maron, Judy Greer
Creator: Jason Keller
As the formula prescribes, Jason Keller's series focuses on one protagonist, the outside guard of the seemingly peeler is a secretly broken heart. This time, it was Price "Stick" Cahill (Wilson), a former professional who had a career that was once an explosive after a public collapse. By 16 years later, when we met him at the pilots directed by Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton, he used his reputation to make overpriced golf equipment enjoyable to rank amateurs, occasionally busy with drunken places with his Esteval Cardi (Marc Maron). Once he doesn't need a divorce, Judy Greer finally goes through once he doesn't need to leave the money at home.
But hope arrives in unexpected form of Sandy (Peter Dager), a 17-year-old with original talent who dreams of "entering on the first floor of the next Tiger Woods." For personal reasons that are obviously cynical and devastating, Price insists on bringing the child under his wings. Santi (the guarantee of Mariana Treviño's mother) agreed for reasons that might be related to the lifelong paternity problem. So Pryce and Santi and Elena and Santi's Love Import Zero (Lilli Kay) piled up in Mitts' RVs in the hopes of getting Santi into American amateurs.
As a sports story, stamp Maybe too timid. Keller’s generous monologue of the characters’ love for the sport with a translation of Golf Lingo for novice audiences. He wasn't very successful in translating what makes golf apart - what sets it apart from any other sport, or makes it uniquely qualified, as Pryce pours in, "If you're open to it, unlock the mysteries of the universe." Instead of teaching us the brand needed to appreciate unique athletic golf, the show relies on Zippy's camera action and actor reaction to convey whether Santi's swing is impressive or disastrous. Green is primarily a physical stage on which emotional conflicts can be shown inside, even by the criteria that one commentator explicitly described as a "Cinderella story", Santi's rise in various levels seems incredibly neat, occasionally obstacles, so we can foresee that we can see that they start from mileage (or otherwise).
But it proves the performance of this series and it's hard to mind too much. stamp It's indeed a party comedy with a lively but simple chemistry that can make ten hours of time - and, for that matter, hundreds of miles of open road - flying by in the blink of an eye. Keller refuses to be too eccentric to his character, but instead finds humor in the sometimes harsh, often playful exchanges between them, while sadness in their true concern and attention to each other. It turns out sometimes is just a laugh show, but it is a very consistent smile in the ear.
Dager is Santi's true discovery, who confidently drives a swing between teen rebellion and innocent miracles, boyish stupidity and broken rage. Although he can keep his mind sweet to Kay, he is the most open and vulnerable in Treviño's scene, and she bites her more open people from the fear of hope and fear, and her hope and fear are comparable to those of her more open.
stamp It also makes good use of Wilson’s familiar character, first using him as a quick charm introduction, then gradually stripping the protective layer to expose the heart of grief. He is a competitor (Timothy Olyphant) sneered, and Pryce easily admits: "A loser, one degenerates, one fucking", but for him he's kind enough that we can't take root for him anyway. Wilson's smoothness is well balanced with Maron, who is full of predictable and interesting ailments, but is also even more unexpectedly melancholy.
Not all actors have the same service. Zero, their fluent pronoun and arrogantly declared positions against meat and capitalism, never completely stopped like ZZZ comics, Xers like Pryce and Mitts could cast their "children today" dissatisfaction - without the fault of the appealing Tart Kay. I wish Greer had a lot more angered wife than Amber-Linn's 2D, even though the actress nearly managed to outweigh her charm and clichés.
But that's stamp Even here, their standout doesn’t care like the characters in the series, and we haven’t had a chance to get better yet. This gang is just a good company, and this kind of gang can easily forgive its flaws and amplify the benefits of doubt. Pointing out that cute characters tend to be for likable performances without anything revolutionary, nothing stamp In that respect, the wheels are being reshaped. But why? For now, this is probably the most enjoyable trip the whole summer.