A League of Their Own

Was really looking forward to this. after loving the movie. It's ok, but I doubt it could be more WOKE if it tried. I mean, every lead character turns out to be gay, which is kinda beating the viewer with the WOKE stick a little too much! It's more about the relationships and less about the baseball, which is a not what I expected. Also the two lead characters for the Peaches look well into their 30's too old to be playing, really. Also not a big fan of period incorrect music being used. There are plenty of great tunes from the 40s they could use, instead of the much more modern stuff played in a lot of sequences. Very disappointing, if you loved the original.

There's so much to love about this show. The representation is amazing! The writing and acting is really spectacular. I greatly appreciate the deep-dive into the lives of women, especially queer women, and queer women of color. I can't even begin to imagine how difficult many of their lives must have been, to have to live in secret, or live a life of lies, in order to protect oneself. I hope that in coming seasons, they explore more of living in a white supremacist, Christo-fascist society that brought on these hardships for these women. If i had one critique, it would be that they should lay off the CGI during the baseball scenes. I understand that it's designed to make these women look like professional baseball players, but it's obvious that they can play, b/c you can see it in their movements on the field. It's one thing to use CGI to effect a homerun or some extraordinary play, but in general, each throw didn't need to have CGI behind it. They should simply let these women play ball.