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Its a comedy for comedys sake.
Theres not a big message to this.
I dont think youll learn anything from watching this.
What Johnson said about the first season ofHoopsis accurate.
The problem is that its not even particularly good at achieving that extremely basic objective.
Hoopsis a sports comedy built in the tradition ofThe Bad News Bears.
Like Coach Buttermaker before him, Ben does the opposite of setting a good example for his players.
The one blip of potential in his life is Matty (A.D. How does he go about persuading the reluctant giant to join?
By hiring a prostitute to have sex with him in a quid pro quo arrangement.
I mean, obviously.
Hoopsdoesnt aspire to anything quite as sophisticated as any of those shows.
It makes enough dick jokes to giveAmerican Vandalpenis envy.
Its f-bomb ratio is extremely high.
For fun, I counted the number of fucks in the opening of episode four.
There were 11 in the first minute and 28 seconds.
Thats an f-bomb every 11 seconds.
I have no doubt that everyone working on the show had a blast making it.
But its one of those comedies with a definite you had to be there vibe.
Every riff and ad-lib no doubt cracked up everybody in the writers room or recording studio.
But once the show gets hit with a whiff of outside oxygen, the humor dissipates.
The idea doesnt get any more hilarious the more its mentioned, though.
Even the animation projects a sense of rage.
If the eyebrows onHoopswere a childrens book, it would beThe Very Angry Caterpillar.
(Spoiler: He never makes a shot.)
But thats hard to do.
After a couple of episodes, some viewers may decide they dont have any more fucks to give.
