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Will a reboot feel familiar but also new?
Which ideas are worth revisiting?
Which relationships really needed to be rethought?
Theres a precise, careful navigation that revivals have to pull off, weaving between originality and loyalty.
For every moment it veers into fond tribute, theres another that tacks away toward reconsideration.
Every warm nod is paired with a gentle critique.
It is at once a celebration and a rejoinder.
In flashes, both feel exactly right.
Give me this movie again but fixed up and polished and new!
Trying to be two opposing things at the same time can cause some vertigo.
Abbi Jacobson plays Carson, who is obviously modeled on Geena Daviss character, Dottie.
The movie character Mae, played by Madonna, is more loosely rewritten as Greta (DArcy Carden).
Rather than just teammates, Carson and Greta are friends who become attracted to each other.
All the sublimated energy of the 92 film becomes swiftly, sharply explicit.
The Rockford Peaches: good at baseball, very queer.
The queered reconstruction of the movie is only half of theLeague of Their Ownseries, though.
The other half is a story that never quite coheres with the rest of the show.
Max finds a factory job, hoping she can play on its mens team.
She struggles to balance her baseball dreams with her mothers expectations that shell inherit the family hair-salon business.
Everyone around them is more complete and more convincing.
Ikumelos performance of Clance is fantastic.
Carden gives Greta a striking blend of joie de vivre and caution.
(When do we get to throw a parade for how good Colindrez is?
I will be there with bells on.)
But the show is built on two central figures who arent as strong as the minor characters orbiting them.
A League of Their Ownwants to be a vintage restoration newly powered by shining modern machinery.
Who doesnt want a much-loved older work made functional and culturally appropriate for a contemporary audience?
