A League of Their Own (★★★★☆), Amazon’s sweeping, 1940s-set dramedy created by Will Graham and Abbi Jacobson, doesn’t rehash or reprise characters made famous in Penny Marshall’s beloved 1992 film.
Dottie, Kit, Doris, and “All the Way” Mae aren’t in the lineup, and neither is Tom Hanks’ irascible Jimmy Dugan, manager of the Rockford Peaches in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.Of course, there’s still no crying in baseball — the movie’s best-remembered quote does earn a reprise — and the spotlight is still on the Peaches of Rockford, Illinois.
They’re represented here by a team of new, compelling characters, women from all walks of life with a shared dream of playing pro baseball.Jacobson, best known as one-half of the talented Broad City duo, stars as Carson Shaw, the hard-swinging Idaho housewife who emerges as the Peaches’ team leader.
The squad gels quickly around catcher Shaw, slugger Jo (Melanie Field), pitcher Lupe (Roberta Colindrez), and leggy wisecracker Greta (D’Arcy Carden), who stirs unexpected pangs of desire in Shaw.The series moves delicately yet assuredly in depicting the myriad facets of romance between Shaw, a married woman with a husband off fighting the war, and Greta, a single, liberated-but-not-out lesbian.
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