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'The League' review - Sepinwall on TV
What's Alan Watching? —
... In today's column, I review "The League," FX's new comedy that's kind of about fantasy football, but not nearly enough as it should be. It begins with my own sad little tale of Ryan Torain. ...
TV Tonight: League of Not-Exactly-Gentlemen
Tuned In —
... ) that speak to larger issues about their characters. Expanded to half-hour length, The League has to be about more than fantasy football, and that's where it runs into trouble. You might think I'm writing this as a disappointed fantasy-football fan. Nothing could be further from the truth. Reading reviews of The League, I am beginning to think that I am the only TV critic who is not involved ...
Hercules Tackles FX’s New Sitcom THE LEAGUE!!
Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. —
... … begins poorly with too much emphasis on the fantasy football league the guys on the show participate in. … is more accessible in its second episode when the focus is on friendship among the guys and their respective marital relationships. … The Newark Star Ledger says: … It's the worst of all possible worlds. It's a comedy about fantasy sports, which will turn off anyone who doesn't play. But it has precious little fantasy sports content, which will turn off anyone who's experienced the horror and silliness of fantasy and wants a comedy to try to capture it. … ...
‘The League’ first episode: They shoulda called it ‘It’s Always Creepy In Fantasy Football’
Ken Tucker's Watching TV —
... code of fantasy-football to take up half of its plot, with the other half devoted to being ostentatiously raunchy. The five guys who are the stars of this show immerse themselves in competing for an annual fantasy-football trophy. Some of the premiere was devoted to their heckling competition and cheerful scheming. This was kind of funny, even for someone like me, for whom fantasy-football is as foreign as playing Dungeons and Dragons. (As TV critic and fantasy-football fan Alan Sepinwall pointed out in his review, The League would have been better if it had actually bug ...
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, "The Gang Wrestles for the Troops": I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubble gum
What's Alan Watching? —
... When I wrote my column about "The League," I said that "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" tends to bat around .333 for me, but tonight's wrestling episode (complete with Rowdy Roddy Piper and his bucket of chestnuts, Rickety Cricket briefly being triumphant and the guys once again composing songs that the masses can't appreciate), coupled with last week's Green Man vs. Philly Frenetic brawl, has the show on a very funny streak at the moment. ...
