Winter TV Watch List, Week of March 5 – 11: ‘Turning Red,’ ‘Winning Time’ and the Return of Andy Warhol
thewrap.com“Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty”Sunday, March 6 at 9 p.m., HBOYour next based-on-a-true-story obsession is here. “Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty” is based on Jeff Pearlman’s nonfiction book “Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s,” which charted the immortal franchise during its heyday with Magic Johnson (who is currently very annoyed at this new show and mounting his own series documenting the era).
This should hit that nostalgic sweet spot that something like ESPN’s Michael Jordan doc “The Last Dance” did, although his new HBO series has a bunch of famous people playing historical figures from the period (John C.
Reilly plays owner Jerry Buss while Jason Clarke plays coach Jerry West and Adrien Brody plays coach Pat Riley). “Don’t Look Up” director Adam McKay directed the first episode and executive produces the show, so you can expect his patented shaky-cam neo-realism and finger-in-the-eye sensibility when it comes to the establishment.
The only thing more fun than watching “Winning Time” would probably be being at one of the games back then. [REVIEW]“Pam & Tommy”Wednesday, March 9, Hulu“Pam & Tommy,” the miniseries chronicling the misadventures of “Baywatch” star Pamela Anderson (Lily James) and Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee (Sebastian Stan) following the theft and distribution of a private sex tape, has been surprising and fun to watch, a time capsule to a time when the internet was burgeoning, sexism and misogyny were a much bigger part of the mainstream, and celebrity culture was largely defined by everyone but the celebrity themselves.
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