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8
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Critic Reviews
Feb 19, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Overall, though, Win or Lose is a pleasant surprise. It’s not a traditional baseball tale and is less interested in the minutiae of sports than the minutiae of those who play them. It gets at various issues bigger than baseball—anxiety, financial pressures, loneliness—but seamlessly weaves in curveballs through funny gags and inventive bursts of animation.
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Feb 19, 2025
Season 1 Review:
I would almost be tempted to call it a home run — if not for one egregious error that tinges what should be a clear win with a sense of loss. .... Critics weren’t sent the episode centered around Kai, and she hasn’t played a significant role in the ones we have seen so far. So I can’t tell you how the last-minute rewrites play, how central her trans identity would have been to her narrative, or how erasing it changes our understanding of her.
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LooperFeb 19, 2025
Season 1 Review:
The four episodes I've seen of "Win or Lose", especially Episodes 3 and 4, are among Pixar's strongest work in recent years. .... Yet I can't escape the dread that the last-minute changes to the show's second half could threaten its tight narrative construction as well as its positive inclusive ethos, so my praise is measured and tentative.
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Screen RantAug 28, 2025
Season 1 Review:
While it is appreciated, it is interesting that adult themes are willingly injected into a show for kids who have yet to experience things such as feeling lonely after ending a relationship. And yet experiences that do impact kids, like gender identity and sexuality, are stripped away because it is supposedly difficult for them to engage with.
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RogerEbert.comFeb 19, 2025
Season 1 Review:
The Mickey Mouse-shaped softball field the series operates in holds it back in a way that fails creators Carrie Hobson and Michael Yates’ original vision. .... “Coach’s Kid” is the most “Inside Out”-esque of the bunch, heartwarming but oddly familiar. The other episodes take strong liberties that feel refreshing even for Pixar. .... Though Kai’s episode “I Got It” wasn’t screened for me, her appearances in the episodes portrayed her as straight and cisgender. It felt like a one-two punch after the sheer cowardice of “Captain America: Brave New World.”
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