- Network: Netflix
- Series Premiere Date: Oct 9, 2024
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The first episode of Starting 5 is titled “Meet the Hoopers”, and it’s clearly focused on introductions, but the notion that introductions are necessary is pretty silly, given the star caliber we’re talking about here.
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There’s just enough here to make the series entertaining, at least to anyone wondering how the 1 percent live. .... To the extent we learn anything about these guys away from the game, it’s mostly thanks to the women in their lives — mothers, sisters, wives, girlfriends — who bring some semblance of normalcy and humanity to the series.
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As “Starting 5” progresses through Christmas Day, the All-Star game, and eventually the playoffs, there’s not enough sense of momentum to give the star power assembled any structure.