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Feb 14, 2024 · Players. Sheila O'Malley February 14, 2024. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. In rom-com land, people get into all kinds of trouble pretending to be something they're not. They try on new personalities. They speak in weird accents. They plot and plan and connive.
48% Tomatometer 29 Reviews 45% Audience Score 100+ Ratings New York sportswriter Mack (Gina Rodriguez) has spent years devising successful hook-up "plays" with best friend Adam (Damon Wayans Jr...
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Feb 13, 2024 · ‘Players’ Review: Running the Rom-Com Playbook. Gina Rodriguez stars in a Netflix movie that recalls the charms of the genre’s heyday. Share full article. From left, Gina Rodriguez, Augustus...
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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 · Players review – Netflix’s Valentine’s romcom is a genre upgrade This article is more than 2 months old Gina Rodriguez brings the charm as a sports fanatic dating in Brooklyn in an ...
Feb 14, 2024 · Review by Brian Lowry, CNN. 2 minute read. Published 8:00 AM EST, Wed February 14, 2024. Link Copied! Gina Rodriguez and Tom Ellis in the Netflix movie "Players." K.C. Bailey/Netflix. CNN —...
Feb 14, 2024 · Players. 2024. TV-MA. 1h 45m. IMDb RATING. 5.7 /10. 9.4K. YOUR RATING. Rate. POPULARITY. 1,653. 344. Play trailer 2:20. 1. 2 Videos. 23 Photos. Comedy Romance. A sports writer unused to relationships falls for a fling, leading her to reconsider playing the field in favor of commitment. Director. Trish Sie. Writer. Whit Anderson. Stars.
