#is watching adrien brody in a cardigan tell people what to do a very specific kind of competence porn?

[oldshrewsburyian]

So I started watching Winning Time despite the fact that it is about Sportsball, and it turns out that this was a great decision because, secretly, while Sportsball is what happens, what the show is about is actually a whole bunch of Weird Men, and a smaller but excellent group of Competent Women. And I do love shows about Weird Men and Competent Women.

...Also it's an interestingly-shot and -scripted take on media, celebrity, race, and gender in the late 20th-century US, so: definitely more than I was expecting from a sportsball show.

#i binge-watched the first season and i might... care about basketball now? #john c. reilly #does a bang-up job of convincing me that i should do so #quincy isaiah #is a DELIGHT #as is also #adrien brody #somehow he is simultaneously very funny and profoundly sad?? i thought those were opposite ends of his range #is watching adrien brody in a cardigan tell people what to do a very specific kind of competence porn? #(that's rhetorical. he also makes plans. the number of strangled noises i have made...) #ANYWAY #it really is a great ensemble cast #solomon hughes #rob morgan #gaby hoffmann #wood harris #winning time hbo #shout-out to the strident feminist english professor (affectionate) who threatened to fail any student #who claimed that what happened was what a piece of media was about #i loved her #oh also britta from community is in this and i wish she had more screen time #oh also! #sally field #living legend #...yeah i care about this sportsball show now #oops?