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Compared to Kaling projects “The Sex Lives of College Girls” and “Velma,” “Running Point” has a far more consistent tone, though that isn’t saying much. When the writing gets predictable or the pace lags, it’s the performers who do the heavy lifting.
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In the first season of a comedy series, there are worse problems to have than trying to do too much. .... It’s a functional franchise right now, but there’s a lot of work to do before it reaches championship levels.
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It’s a bit of a strange thing to have a show with a lead performer this watchable stranded in plots that fail to hook the viewer. Hudson is game, if saddled with a Cool Girl archetype. If “Running Point” can figure out how to sharpen the stories around her, the rest of the show can catch up.
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While Running Point is no loser, nor is it the slam-dunk you might hope for from this lineup.
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Running Point has its charm, and Kate Hudson proves she still has some leading lady chops. But its stock characters and superficial storylines amount to a tepid first season that doesn't have the narrative depth nor comedic tenacity to engage and unpack the high-stakes subject of running a professional basketball franchise.
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Running Point wastes Hudson’s star power and the significant comedic talents of its ensemble on uninspired writing and unlikable characters.
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The 10-episode first season is a flattening, often maddening watch, only occasionally rising above generic familiarities to deliver something trenchant or specific about its otherwise generically dysfunctional family.
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There’s a fundamentally generic quality to the comedy of Running Point that feels like what you’d get when you ask ChatGPT to crank out a TV show made by Mindy Kaling.
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It’s a less charming Legally Blonde, peppered with f-words, and with the feel of a show spat out by AI.
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Are you in the mood for a basketball comedy that has some leaden jokes and some even more leaden things to say about sexism and prejudice in the US industrial sports complex? Of course you’re not. Nobody is. But it’s here, it stars Kate Hudson and it’s called Running Point.