A welcome reboot on PrimeVideo, an Olympic swimmer’s inspiring story and loads of FIFA corruption highlighted the year in sports TV, movies and books
Performance of the Year: Chanté Adams,remains a beloved family classic
Still, the movie’s enduring popularity made it ripe for a reboot, one that features a little more edge and a wider scope than the original. Abbi Jacobson and Will Graham have created a series for Amazon Prime that features two equally powerful story lines. One focuses on the members of the all-white Rockford Peaches—their play on the field as well as their romantic entanglements, many of which are intrasquad.
But Adams was intrigued by her character’s arc, which focuses on Max’s relationship with her mother , her sexuality and simply navigating life as a Black woman in the Midwest in the 1940s. At times baseball seems like an afterthought; Max barely touches a ball until halfway through the eight-episode season.doesn’t gloss over the difficulties faced by Max and those in her orbit, but neither does it ignore the flip side of the ugliness.
Mild spoiler: The camp was one of the few times that she actually interacted with the actors who play the Peaches. To their credit, Jacobson and Graham never fully merge the two story lines. It’s a perfect Hollywood setup: Black pitcher wins over white players, who then give an impassioned speech to commissioner, who relents and allows her into the league. But that never happened in the 1940s, so it doesn’t happen here.
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