Ed O’Neill, Laurence Fishburne, and Cleopatra Coleman headline FX’s new limited series about the notorious scandal of the former Clippers owner’s shocking racism scandal.
Basketball is a beautiful, fast-paced game, but maybe it moves too quickly to effectively capture up close. That would help to explain why so many notable movies and shows about the sport focus on backstage wheelings and dealings, the big business of ball-playing on display in movies as varied as. These types of stories exist about football or baseball, too, but they’re balanced out by countless narratives that depend on substantial gameplay .
The show doesn’t absolve Sterling or even paint him as momentarily sympathetic—if anything, O’Neill portrays him as a man who will almost always choose the sound of his own voice over anything else, even the reputation that he initially believes can’t be sullied—but it does explore the more complex motivations of the women in his life, going beyond a desire to expose his incompetence.
But as the series goes on, it doesn’t always mix its voices together at optimal levels. Fishburne is easily the most charismatic and empathetic of the leads, and he becomes a de facto supporting character once Sterling’s racism becomes public. There’s a lot of lip service paid to how these stresses affect the Clippers and their first serious run at a championship in ages, but that material never really deepens until Rivers becomes more prominent in the final episode again.
covers some of this material well, while other moments feel like reaching—the TV-writing equivalent of applying a few hashtags to make quick connections. This makeslook like the latest example of a feature film’s worth of material that is overextended and drawn out into a miniseries. But maybe it’s actually just another instance of basketball moving with too much agility and dexterity to properly capture onscreen.
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