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Critic Reviews
Jul 12, 2016
Season 2 Review:
[Ricky Jerret, played by John David Washington (Denzel Washington's son) is] the show's secret weapon--a handsome, energetic live-wire who expertly conveys the brash ego and subtle insecurities of a player whose career may be fading into the sunset at the age of 30. But make no mistake, this is Johnson's baby. With that all-glowing smile, he brings his A-game to Ballers while always managing to look good in a suit.
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Jun 22, 2015
Season 1 Review:
Johnson himself is the best part of Ballers, a charismatic, mostly responsive force that is our window to the precarious world of retirement from football. His perspective on the life of the partying ball player is one of nostalgia. But in the absence of forward momentum, the camera turns to looking for shock value anywhere it can.
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Jul 21, 2017
Season 3 Review:
The dialogue doesn’t crackle as much as it should, the imagery is typical money-money-shiny-shiny music video fare, and the humor is uniformly shallow and unclever. Aside from its lack of artistic ambition, however, it’s kind of hard to bellyache about Ballers. It’s inoffensive, good-natured, low-risk entertainment made for people who want exactly that and nothing more.
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Jun 17, 2015
Season 1 Review:
It’s hard to tell whether Ballers means to make the high life seem as rote and empty as it does (my hunch is that the producers and writers are given more to bouts of envy than sermonizing), but the show and its actors are so much better when zooming in on serious matters.
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