I agree with reviewers who say that the people in this seem more like 21st century people than WWII era people. OK, I guess you can modernize the language some and still call it a period piece, but this is more than a little.
It's also the attitudes of the people. There are so many non-conformists especially the gay people. If you were gay in 1943, you kept your head down and were very careful. You sure didn't walk up to someone you just met and kiss her. Alan Turing who might be the father of modern computing and was probably one of the top 10 people as far as winning world war 2 was convicted and sentenced to chemical castration in the 1950's for being a homosexual. That was nearly a decade later and after his amazing contributions. It was deadly dangerous to be gay in the 1940's. And to try to do it while being a public figure made it even harder. No their attitudes toward it all were ridiculously inaccurate.
And did we need two such relationships? Did we need to deal with the oppression of blacks, the oppression of women, the oppression of black women, and the oppression of gays all in the same story? And then there is the underdog story of Carson as a behind the scenes baseball strategist while being subject to Dove and management. There is a lot going on besides baseball.
There were a lot of good moments. I didn't think it was as generally funny as the movie by the same name, but there were moments.
I think that Abbi Jacobson did mostly a good job of showing the personal impact of all the different things in Carson's life pulling her in different directions. I think that D'Arcy Carden played Greta as a little too easygoing about the whole gay thing and her early relationship issues with Carson. Chanté Adams was mostly believable in her role albeit perhaps a little too much in the wrong century.
It's also the attitudes of the people. There are so many non-conformists especially the gay people. If you were gay in 1943, you kept your head down and were very careful. You sure didn't walk up to someone you just met and kiss her. Alan Turing who might be the father of modern computing and was probably one of the top 10 people as far as winning world war 2 was convicted and sentenced to chemical castration in the 1950's for being a homosexual. That was nearly a decade later and after his amazing contributions. It was deadly dangerous to be gay in the 1940's. And to try to do it while being a public figure made it even harder. No their attitudes toward it all were ridiculously inaccurate.
And did we need two such relationships? Did we need to deal with the oppression of blacks, the oppression of women, the oppression of black women, and the oppression of gays all in the same story? And then there is the underdog story of Carson as a behind the scenes baseball strategist while being subject to Dove and management. There is a lot going on besides baseball.
There were a lot of good moments. I didn't think it was as generally funny as the movie by the same name, but there were moments.
I think that Abbi Jacobson did mostly a good job of showing the personal impact of all the different things in Carson's life pulling her in different directions. I think that D'Arcy Carden played Greta as a little too easygoing about the whole gay thing and her early relationship issues with Carson. Chanté Adams was mostly believable in her role albeit perhaps a little too much in the wrong century.