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New York sportswriter Mack (Gina Rodriguez) has spent years devising successful hook-up “plays” with her friends (Damon Wayans Jr., Liza Koshy, Augustus Prew...
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- Netflix
Players is a 2024 American romantic comedy film directed by Trish Sie and written by Whit Anderson. It stars Gina Rodriguez, Damon Wayans Jr., Joel Courtney, Augustus Prew, Liza Koshy, Ego Nwodim, Marin Hinkle, and Tom Ellis. It was released by Netflix on February 14, 2024.
Feb 14, 2024 · A Netflix movie about a sports writer who uses a playbook of hook-up "plays" but falls for a war correspondent. See the cast, crew, trailer, reviews, trivia and more on IMDb.
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- Comedy, Romance
- Trish Sie
- 2024-02-14
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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...
A mockumentary comedy series about a League of Legends esports team, created by American Vandal's Tony Yacenda and Dan Perrault. Follow the drama, humor and heartbreak of Fugitive Gaming as they chase their first championship.
With Misha Brooks, Da'Jour Jones, Ely Henry, Holly Chou. Follows a League of Legends team looking to win its first championship after years. In order to make it to the top, their prodigy, a 17-year-old rookie, and their 27-year-old veteran must put aside their egos and work together.
Gina Rodriguez, Damon Wayans Jr., and Tom Ellis star in a sporty new romantic comedy. Check out first look photos and the release date.
