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“Stick” -Apple TV +’s new sub-dog drame (which follows “Ted lasso” footprints) – It’s creeping in love. On the surface, the Jason Keller Show is a mix of cliché variations from classic sports movies and New Wave TV comedies (like jokes that pull the gap between Gen Z and Gen X), but under its rather predictable formula there is a really charming heart that got me out of guard.
The installation is quite simple: Pryce Cahill (Owen Wilson, betting all his restrained but charming charisma), once a promising pro golfer turned into a golf club seller, is broken and in the midst of a fairly gloomy financial view of his future. He is heavily related to his money problems, he is likely to lose his home full of memories and golf memories he currently lives in. But one day, while old lady teaching in the driving area and around the driving area, hope for something better to invite the club’s swinging Swoosh.
The impressive swing belongs to Santi (Peter Dager), a teenager’s miracle that his now invading father had trained as a professional long ago, and Pryce immediately sees an endless potential he has once seen in himself. Despite the child’s original reluctance, they both agree to group and go on a tour, each of which brings his own emotional support system Santi proudly Elena (Maria Trevino) and Pryce’s long-time friend and former Caddy, Mitts (Marc Maron.
Just like “ted lasso” and some classic sports moviesGolf is here only as a context where more fascinating and exciting dramas can challenge. Technology, Santi is a phenomenal player who only needs mental guidance where Pryce is excellent. There is reason to do so: he has gone through everything in the past – from great opportunities to collapse and burn – and suffered a personal loss as a parent that most people don’t come back.
If it is somewhat reminiscent of a particular character of the forgotten classic of the 1990s, you have to be a fan of Ron Shelton’s work and most importantly, one of the best golf movies ever made, “Tin Cup”.
Stick and Tin Kupi has fine features
Now, before some Hardcore Shelton and Kevin Costner fans scream, let me say that “stick” is barely in the same league as the “Tin Cup”. The latter is a defensive cult classic with basically the 90s atmosphere (believe me, I just watched it again for the fourth time) that few sports films manage to keep their era. It is also led by a beloved actress who was widely associated with this type of pictures in the late 1980s and for the 90s (Especially baseball movies Like “Bull Durham”, “Game Love”, etc.). But with the Keller series and the “Tin Cup” also share some vital features that explain how the former can grow up fairly quickly.
Costner’s Roy, a washed golfer who works in the SORRY-State area in the middle of the empty, is “cash problems” (just like Pryce) at the “Tin Cup” event due to a $ 12,000 stripper-indisible girlfriend. He is a stubborn and bull -headed fault (his relentless balloonist who repeatedly descends him in trouble) and usually does not get out of his own way to really achieve something. In a sense, Wilson’s “stick” event seems like a slightly matured and advanced Roy version because of his age and experience -someone who learned the difference between his intestines and unnecessarily reckless. Of course, he cannot always prevent the old himself from getting better him and placing him in risky situations. Both characters fight in some dangerous gambling, when the divorce is that Pryce truly destroys people with a detailed plan to cheat on them with their golf knowledge and fluent skills.
Although Roy and Pryce also have malfunctions in terms of relationships, and both are types of closed men who are struggling to express their feelings directly. At the “Tin Cup” event, this is played with laughter as Roy tries to seduce Molly (Rene Russo), a woman who dating an old competitor (Don Johnson), while “Stick” Pryce’s inability to express heavy feelings is much deeper into trauma. His sadness stifles him and tune in to anyone who is trying to help him. It is a feature that makes him vulnerable and deeply relatively in our eyes.
Still, romance and chemistry are a central part of both sports comedies, even if they sometimes go over what the plot really needs – look at Santi and Zero (Lilli Kay) flying the stupid flirting of the former and Roy and Molly in the latter. At other times, however, these romantic sub -plots are perfectly nailed to a sweet and satisfying balance, allowing the support characters to be quietly falling in love with the background.
Stick and Tin Cup makes us feel what it is part of a loving team
Above all, the “tin cup” closed “channels gradually turn the viewer into a member of its core group. We slowly love to love these dorkes and support them in all the most difficult challenges and emotional turning points because they hit us as real people. I know it’s a storytelling 101 (apparently), but that’s especially true for this exhibition. You can guess most of the results and twists of the regular plot because you have seen it playing dozens of times earlier. It is a relational, charming and empathic characters that catch you (forgive) with it and watch it because you feel a pleasure in their attempt (some random disadvantages), even through the television screen.
We all want love and acceptance in this world, preferably from people who can forget our flaws and understand the deepest emotional wounds like anyone else. “Stick” and “Tin Cup” are sublime by imprisoning this nature through a supportive and versatile actor who always finds a way to connect, whether in difficulty, failure or joy and victory. And even though I suspect the former will reach the latter valuable cult, if you are looking for something desirable, uplifting and exciting, reminiscent of “Ted Lasso”, you should definitely tune in … and also the “Tin Cup” watch.
“Stick” now streams Apple TV+.
