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Feb 14, 2024 · The tropes are so front and center that real life barely has any room to breathe. Advertisement. "Players" is about a gang of friends living in New York City, all single, all of whom spend their off-hours "running plays" on potential hook-ups. They name all the different plays ("The Betsy Ross," "Drip Drop"), and work them together, tag-teaming ...
Feb 19, 2024 Full Review Nina Metz Chicago Tribune Players is a perfectly fine — occasionally better-than-fine — romantic comedy starring well-known TV actors who know their way around this ...
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Feb 13, 2024 · Directed by Trish Sie. Comedy, Romance. Not Rated. 1h 45m. Find Tickets. When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. “Players ...
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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...
Feb 14, 2024 · Cast: Gina Rodriguez, Damon Wayans Jr., Joel Courtney, Augustus Prew, Liza Koshy, Ego Nwodim, Marin Hinkle, Tom Ellis. Director: Trish Sie. Screenwriter: Whit Anderson. 1 hour 45 minutes. Players ...
Jun 17, 2022 Full Review Kathryn VanArendonk New York Magazine/Vulture Even though Players is a foreign setting to me, it is also a fun and poignant portrait of some specific types of guys.
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Jun 15, 2022 · Paramount+’s ‘Players’: TV Review. Dan Perrault and Tony Yacenda's 'American Vandal' follow-up is a serious-minded mockumentary about 'League of Legends' and the competitive esports world.
