So off we go, watching Isla girlboss her way out of tricky situations involving sponsors, lunkhead players – such as Travis (Chet Hanks), who says things like “I guess it’s take your sister to work day!” when he sees her and makes his Black teammates listen to his raps – and disrespectful star players such as Marcus (Toby Sandeman), who sends his social media manager and triple-wick candles from his wellness range to meetings in his stead.
Cam (Justin Theroux) is a competent president and a handsome figurehead for the brand, Ness (Scott MacArthur) is general manager (after Daddy got Donald Rumsfeld to help him flee Manila after drug charges) and half-brother Sandy (Drew Tarver) is chief financial officer – smart, unathletic and, thanks to Daddy’s thoughts on the matter, still not fully comfortable with being gay.
Cue a cutesy flashback in which a child actor delivers a Sorkinesque monologue about the team’s chances and her recommended player trades while trotting beside her father down a corridor of power, before having the door shut in her face as he enters another meeting room full of men in suits.
Are you in the mood for a basketball comedy that has some leaden jokes and some even more leaden things to say about sexism and prejudice in the US industrial sports complex?
Because Sandy only knows numbers, Ness is too friendly with the players and Cam knows that she was unfairly overlooked by the patriarch.
