The League: Season Two [Blu-ray]

Fantasy football leagues may be tremendously popular for millions of Americans, but there obviously isn’t really enough substance there to forge a season of situation comedy, so the creators of The League use the fantasy football motif to introduce us to the shenanigans of five high school friends now long out of school (though with their blundering stupidity and boneheaded decision-making you might imagine they’re still in grade school) who taunt, tease, bicker, and torment one another during a season of fantasy football. Yes, they have their own league, and yes, the competition seems to matter to them, but most of the thirteen episodes that make up the second season of this show don’t revolve around football or their squads. Instead, the cast is thrown into various situations where their interactions can produce optimum levels of vulgar fratboy humor and utter nonsense. Buddy comedies can be fun or foolish, depending on the genuine caring for one another that exists under the surface of their outward boisterous camaraderie, but these five guys seem especially insensitive and cruel to one another. Friends like these most of us can do without. On the other hand, some of the improvisatory comedy can be amusing, even witty at times, and give the show its only reason for existing.

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