Hoops

Name: Hoops
Genre: Comedy, Animation, Sports
Released: August 21, 2020
Rating: 35

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Netflix | Release Date: August 21, 2020

Summary: Coach Ben Hopkins (Jake Johnson) helps a terrible high school basketball team in hopes it will lead to opportunities to the big leagues in this comedy created by Ben Hoffman.

Creator: Ben Hoffman

Genre(s): Comedy, Animation, Sports

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S1:E10. The Scout
Air Date: August 21, 2020
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S1:E9. The Road Game
Air Date: August 21, 2020
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S1:E8. Death
Air Date: August 21, 2020

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Joel Keller

Aug 21, 2020

Season 1 Review: It’s easy to dismiss Hoops as just curse-filled and crass. But the cast is great, and you start to root for Coach Hopkins and his team by the end of the first episode. It isn’t always funny, but it’s just funny enough and has enough heart to be a decent show. Read full review

Daniel Fienberg

Aug 20, 2020

Season 1 Review: By the tenth episode there's enough going right here to make one hopeful for future seasons, but it still feels like a disappointment given the pedigree. At the very least, Hoops passes the time until somebody just gives Ron Funches a show of his own. Read full review

Saloni Gajjar

Aug 19, 2020

Season 1 Review: Ben’s self-indulgent and cynical without warmth or thoughtfulness. The rest of the main cast do their best—and their best Kentucky accents—but the series lacks a vision of where it wants its characters to go or the message it sends, a quality that’s set shows like BoJack Horseman and Big Mouth apart from other animated offerings. To mix sport metaphors, Hoops is like a racehorse with blinders on. Read full review

Jen Chaney

Aug 20, 2020

Season 1 Review: Hoops is a show about an immature man and his immature teenage charges that doesn’t aspire to anything more than making immature jokes and then, often, repeating those same immature jokes. ... There is some funny buried in Hoops, if you can get past the more off-putting moments to find it. But that’s hard to do. Read full review

The Playlist Brian Tallerico

Oct 5, 2020

Season 1 Review: “Hoops” is animated because no network would greenlight a show about an asshole like Ben Hopkins if it were live-action. That may be just barely enough for the most loyal Jake Johnson fans. Everyone else should find another game, cartoon, or literally anything else to watch. Read full review

IndieWire Ben Travers

Aug 21, 2020

Season 1 Review: Hoffman is happy creating a world where Ben can get away with stuff like this without learning his lesson or offering any applicable commentary. There’s no satire here, or anything beyond the surface-level ugliness. That’s not to say there aren’t other characters, but none are fleshed out enough to stand out. ... The profane repetition is only numbing. Hitting the horse harder doesn’t make you laugh at the abuser. It just makes you feel sorry for the horse. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Nick Allen

Aug 21, 2020

Season 1 Review: “Hoops” proves that excessive cussing is just like canned laughter when it comes to comedy, in that abuse of either shows the extent of a show's desperation. Ben's profane outrage becomes tiresome pretty quickly. Read full review

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Kleyman

Dec 10, 2020

In my opinion pretty cool show. Not the best, but pretty cool. Everyone who loves American Dad or Rick and Morty would like it

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 1

35
- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: August 21, 2020
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  S1:E10. The Scout
  Air Date: August 21, 2020
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  S1:E9. The Road Game
  Air Date: August 21, 2020
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  S1:E8. Death
  Air Date: August 21, 2020
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  S1:E7. The Strike
  Air Date: August 21, 2020
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  S1:E6. Zen
  Air Date: August 21, 2020
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  S1:E5. Matty Gets a Girlfriend
  Air Date: August 21, 2020
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  S1:E4. The Sponsor
  Air Date: August 21, 2020
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  S1:E3. Ethics
  Air Date: August 21, 2020
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  S1:E2. My Two Dads
  Air Date: August 21, 2020
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  S1:E1. The Pilot
  Air Date: August 21, 2020