A League of their Own on Amazon. Like the film, it’s about the Rockford Peaches in the All American Girls Baseball league in the 1940s, but doesn’t use the specific characters from the film. Nick Offerman plays a version of the Tom Hanks character.
Unlike the film, however, about half of it is about a Black woman trying to play ball. Of course, the league wasn’t integrated, so it’s unclear how it will tie that plot into the part about the white women. So far, it’s mostly just a whole separate story.
It’s also about queer people, which, it turns out, is historically accurate but not mentioned in the film.
I don’t understand the connection between interest in sports and sexual orientation, but I guess there is one.
Needless to say, it will piss off all the right people, which is no doubt why it has a low score on IMDB, but it’s a
well-made show. Lots of good 40s fashion.
Of course, it’s mostly a story of women putting up with all kinds of bullshit to do what they want to do. Unfortunately, that’s timeless.
The main criticism is that the dialogue is often anachronistic. I think the idea is to show that these were young people, often from fairly rough places, who struggled to fit into the finishing school rules being imposed on them. They probably swore a lot, but not the way we do today.
So if hey talked the way people actually talked in the 40s, kids watching today might not get all of that.
A few shows are doing that now. Dickinson did it to a much greater degree (“Hawthorn can eat a bag of dicke, am I right” - Louisa May Alcott)
But if they talked like my grandma while playing baseball and having forbidden romances, maybe the contrast from their reality vs the expectations imposed on them would be even starker.
The other issue is that the actors are too old. They’re in their late 30s or early 40s. The real players from that era were in their 20s, of course.
Also, historically, the version of baseball they played started out as a hybrid of softball, because that’s what the women had played. The rules and the hall evolved to be more like baseball. That’s never mentioned.
These leagues started during the war, of course, but actually lasted into the 1950s. i didn’t know that.
Unlike the film, however, about half of it is about a Black woman trying to play ball. Of course, the league wasn’t integrated, so it’s unclear how it will tie that plot into the part about the white women. So far, it’s mostly just a whole separate story.
It’s also about queer people, which, it turns out, is historically accurate but not mentioned in the film.
I don’t understand the connection between interest in sports and sexual orientation, but I guess there is one.
Needless to say, it will piss off all the right people, which is no doubt why it has a low score on IMDB, but it’s a
well-made show. Lots of good 40s fashion.
Of course, it’s mostly a story of women putting up with all kinds of bullshit to do what they want to do. Unfortunately, that’s timeless.
The main criticism is that the dialogue is often anachronistic. I think the idea is to show that these were young people, often from fairly rough places, who struggled to fit into the finishing school rules being imposed on them. They probably swore a lot, but not the way we do today.
So if hey talked the way people actually talked in the 40s, kids watching today might not get all of that.
A few shows are doing that now. Dickinson did it to a much greater degree (“Hawthorn can eat a bag of dicke, am I right” - Louisa May Alcott)
But if they talked like my grandma while playing baseball and having forbidden romances, maybe the contrast from their reality vs the expectations imposed on them would be even starker.
The other issue is that the actors are too old. They’re in their late 30s or early 40s. The real players from that era were in their 20s, of course.
Also, historically, the version of baseball they played started out as a hybrid of softball, because that’s what the women had played. The rules and the hall evolved to be more like baseball. That’s never mentioned.
These leagues started during the war, of course, but actually lasted into the 1950s. i didn’t know that.
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