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You know men who devote an absurd amount of time to mocking one another? I do, and I call them ''me and my friends.'' Maybe that's why I so enjoyed this sitcom about a group of thirtysomething pals and their fantasy football league....Or maybe it's just darn funny.
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Steadfastly crass in content, The League is generally subtle in execution.
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In its astonishingly raunchy way, The League is pretty funny whether or not you’re a fantasy geek, assuming you’re a TV-MA kind of person.
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The League comes close to the goal of creating a TV show with "The Hangover"-type appeal.
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As in "Sunny," they are almost-lovable losers, and that's a formula FX is now perfecting.
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The testosterone-infused interplay as they taunt each other over career potholes, curdled marriages and sexual depravities and deprivations is scathing and hilarious, though an astonishing percentage of it cannot even be alluded to here.
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If you're easily offended, you will be appalled by The League. If you chuckle at smutty, raunchy humor and profanity, this show offers dirty-minded comedic rewards.
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Did I mention that The League is occasionally pretty funny? Forget that it's basically a Bud Light commercial stretched out to fit a half-hour of broadcast time.
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The dialogue is entirely composed of trash talk, and as far as that goes, it's pretty creative.
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FX has always had a good idea what viewers it's after, and the way TV works these days, a loyal cult can be enough. The League certainly has the goods to get one of those.
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The raunchy comedy on The League had me laughing out loud a few times, but mostly I felt as though I’d seen it all done better before.
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It can be funny at times, like when a draft pick becomes part of a negotiated plea bargain in a criminal case. And there's no denying the strong chemistry among the little-known cast. At other times, though the one-dimensional humor wears thin and the guys nearly become parodies of themselves.
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Even with endless talk about genitalia and the things people can do to them, The League is surprisingly dull and slack - without snap or payoff.
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There's nothing wrong with a show about lovable losers, but they have to be, you know, lovable. Here, the men seem to be products of their writers' contempt; they're such babies that even their profanity doesn't rise from the potty.
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If you're going to do a show about fantasy football, then do it. Go big, or go home. As constructed, The League will leave no one happy.
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Cable's FX, which has reliably churned out good watching for most of this decade, drives off a cliff tonight with an offensive and shockingly unfunny sitcom, The League.
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A single-camera sitcom about guys in a fantasy football league whose cluelessness is only matched by their crudeness.
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Why would you want to watch a show about this lame league when you could just use the time to play in one yourself, or, good heavens, just watch the game?
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Not much about this show rang true to me, except the moment when the league commissioner begged players to get their fees in on time.
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The show is weak, sometimes plain creepy, when it moves from fantasy football to male fantasy.
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If I tell you that The League is a reprehensible show, I’m not really telling you that much. The new improvised-comedy series airing at 9:30 tonight on FX wears its reprehensibility with pride.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 117 out of 139
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Mixed: 9 out of 139
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Negative: 13 out of 139
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Oct 7, 2010
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BobSNov 6, 2009
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KevinANov 4, 2009Yikes. I play fantasy sports and this looked like it could be good. But it was just sloppy and stupid. I turned off after half the show.