The NBA point guard and the 'Happy Endings' favorite are joined by Ego Nwodim in a six-episode mockumentary about superstars and the normal folks they left behind.
When Kobe Bryant returned to Philadelphia for his final game, one of the reporters at his press conference was Evan Monsky, Bryant’s former high school basketball teammate at Lower Merion. During the Q&A, Monsky asked Bryant to name the best point guard he ever played with and Bryant, without skipping a beat, saluted “Evan Monsky” as the best passer, before listing the Hall of Famers and All-Stars from his various NBA teams.
The mockumentary has a fatal flaw that at least starts from an admirable place. Creators Pally, David Caspe, Matthew Libman and Daniel Libman decided they wanted the series to have some real emotional stakes, to go beyond the easy laughs of the dream fulfilled/denied trappings and make a show about generational cycles of addiction and trauma.
Danny, meanwhile, runs an unsuccessful memorabilia store, which as another character explicitly notes, points to his desire to live in the past. And why wouldn’t he want that? In the present, Danny is pining for his ex-wife Samantha , trying to hold onto his relationship with his tween daughter Charlie and he’s $90,000 in debt to the Polish mob.
But if you’re making a series that’s somewhat about the consequences of addiction, you can’t have a 30-something man be in life-endangering debt to organized crime in the first 10 minutes of your series and then basically never mention it, or the circumstances around it, again after the first episode. At that point, you’re saying, “We want the show to have stakes, but notPally doesn’t quite know either.
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