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- Paramount Players is an American film production label of Paramount Pictures, focusing on "contemporary properties" while working with other Paramount Global brands. The name alludes to the company's earliest origins as Famous Players Film Company, before its 1914 founding by William Wadsworth Hodkinson.
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Paramount Players is an American film production label of Paramount Pictures, focusing on "contemporary properties" while working with other Paramount Global brands. The name alludes to the company's earliest origins as Famous Players Film Company, before its 1914 founding by William Wadsworth Hodkinson .
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By Matt Fowler
Updated: Jun 24, 2022 9:20 pm
Posted: Jun 14, 2022 2:00 pm
This is a non-spoiler review for all 10 episodes of Players' first season on Paramount+.
The series will premiere Thursday, June 16 with four episodes. Following the premiere, new episodes will drop weekly on Thursdays.
It is absolutely not a requirement that you have a working knowledge of either League of Legends or esports to enjoy Players, the new "mockumentary" from American Vandal creators Tony Yacenda and Dan Perrault. The story is so impeccably executed that explanations are either hidden within the show's deft design or easily available via context clues. Therefore, we hope, nothing will prevent you from enjoying this mischievous and moving look at professional gamers which, like the superb American Vandal, is only a gentle parody, never going full comedy, allowing for both dark humor and drama to team up and rock your world.
Also like American Vandal (can you tell we also recommend this show?), Players will suck you in, make you care about the characters, and often level you with hard-hitting moments of heart and vulnerability. You'll follow Fugitive as they try to capture their first-ever championship after years of close calls. Fugitive co-founder and 27-year-old veteran Creamcheese (Misha Brooks) is an aggressively boastful star who's living the bro-life of his dreams, often masking his tucked-away insecurities with juvenile posturing. Brooks, this show's best discovery, is mesmerizing as a trash talker who's both a self-aggrandizing twit and also a loyal friend to the end. At first, Creamcheese is a lot to take. As the center of the story in many ways, he almost feels like a hurdle for the series, but that in itself is a comment on how, in many ways, he acts as an obstacle to his own success.
Given this... can you guess which character you'll come to desperately care about? Yacenda and Perrault know how to craft fully rounded individuals, complete with multitudes and depth, stripping away the facades they use like armor. They did it before with teens and social media and now they're bringing it into the world of success and celebrity, with the point being that esports is still such a niche world that's hard to understand for most people that it's easy to create several "big fish in a small pond" scenarios, which then only adds to some of the comedy because of how seriously the characters take their very special, exclusive world. The final trick, of course, is that we, the viewers, will become just as invested.
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Players, from American Vandal's Tony Yacenda and Dan Perrault, is a hilarious and captivating look at the behind-the-scenes (and in-front-of-the-cameras) drama of a popular-but-frustrated League of Legends esports team. It evokes much of the greatness of American Vandal but flips the script a bit by building toward a big tournament showdown, filled...
Jun 16, 2022 · New Paramount+ comedy 'Players,' from 'American Vandal' creators, tackles the world of professional gaming, streaming and League of Legends.
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From the Peabody Award-winning creators of "American Vandal," Tony Yacenda and Dan Perrault, PLAYERS is a comedic documentary-style series that follows a fictional pro League of Legends esports team, as they pursue their first championship after years of close calls and heartache.
Jun 16, 2022 · Inexplicably, the G15 has found new life in 2022 with a starring role in Players, a new mockumentary from American Vandal co-creators Dan Perrault and Tony Yacenda about a fictional League of...
Jul 28, 2022 · By Allison Keene | July 28, 2022 | 2:39pm. Photo Courtesy of Paramount+ TV Features Players. Players might be the most surprising series of the year.
