the audience applauded

Good concept, poorly executed.

The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

The League was one of my favorite shows. Funny, well written, well acted. A genuine fun time.But that hasn't happened in quite awhile.Around Season 5, the quality really starts to plummet, with season six being barely watchable and Season 7 limping over the finish line. Which is a shame, especially knowing ahead of time that this was the end, you would hope the creators and writers would try to give the fans some sort of memorable send off, but it feels as if they gave up long ago.The first 4 seasons are great comedy, very wonderful and funny. Each season has an overarching plot, the characters and situations are funny, all of that. It's all thrown to the wayside for the later half of the series, however.Taco goes from lovable stoner to oblivious jerk. Ruxin retains his character mostly. Andre's patheticness is one of the only constants in the series, and I love every cringy moment of it. Pete never really gained my interest. And Kevin and Jenny are just kinda there. Kevin gets really deplorable in later seasons, especially season 7.And I understand if you hate him, but I enjoy Raffi. I'm a Manzoukas fan. Randy is a little ehh, I started to dislike him the more he appeared, but I do like Raffi.All and all, don't feel compelled to watch the whole series. End at around season 4, maybe 5 if you really want more. You'll get your closure there. The final two seasons are not worth the trip.

I really love this show, i find it hilarious, the characters are great.However, when i first started watching this show i loved how much they cared about their league and fantasy football and how their lives revolved around it. Once the series went on it sort of drifted away from this side of the story, basically making it about 5 guys and 1 of their wives, who seem to have a hobby that pops up, the league itself becomes a small factor in what should be the centrepiece of the whole show, I loved at the start where they went different places for the drafts and that they cared so much, but now it seems the only episodes related to the league are the first and last on each season.

My dad has me hooked on this show. it took about 3 episodes before I absolutely had to watch. It is now a part of my DVR schedule, and if you have Netflix, the show has all seasons minus the 2013 season on it. It appears FxX is repeating a bunch of the 2013, so people should be able to catch up.While it is based off a group that does fantasy football, they do an extremely great job of explaining things that require no football knowledge at all (even though, you may miss out on all the football player cameos that hit). About the only thing that is not explained well, that adds to the humor of many episodes, is the importance of the "first pick" when you create your team for the first time. Think of it like when you were in high school, and people were picking a team for basketball. If only one kid was 7' tall in senior high, obviously everyone wanted him first on their team.It reminds me of an adult version of The Guild. When I say adult, there is a lot of drug and sex reference. When I say drug, when they hit the bong they actually hit the bong, and either real fake pot smoke or CGI smoke is seen, unlike some shows that only imply it. Also, you will see, at the least, the ass of a few guys as well as a girl. There are even a few "watching porn" scenes where I can't help but wonder how this show made it to extended cable and not HBO/Max. This show has maintained a TV-MA status that puts South Park to shame! There is also plenty of language. The F bomb is the only thing that gets bleeped, everything else is pretty much fair game. The "other" version of cat, as well as many other references.Overall, the humor is extremely raunchy. One of the writers of the show did such works as The Dictator, Bruno, EuroTrip, Seinfeld, and even Herman's Head (I miss that show). If you are familiar with the humor of these first two shows, then you can imagine what to expect here. Fans of The Mindy Project will be familiar with one main cast member, as well as a few of the guest stars that show up.The downside to this show is that to get the best value for your watching is you have to watch every episode. Some people, such as myself, will actually enjoy this aspect, however if you are one who likes to pick and choose, a lot of the in-joke humor will not be as funny as it otherwise could be.Still, I am extremely pleased with The League, and hope it continues on for many seasons to come. If you cannot get into it by the 3rd episode, then it may not be a show for you. I was beyond hooked by the second episode.

Difficult to rate because I'm conflicted. I have no idea why this hasn't been released in the UK, other than the fact that most of us probably don't get American Football references and it's probably not suitable to be aired on television generally. It's totally gross, sick, rude, inappropriate, blasphemous, obscene, cringeworthy and has jokes about just about everything that I personally find distasteful, and things that I'd usually turn off for. However, it is unavoidably hilarious. Laugh out loud funny even if you are berating yourself for finding something so horrible amusing. You know you should switch off but it's just too funny. It's definitely more boy-humour than girl-humour (think The Hangover) so I'm surprised I like it so much in that respect. None of the characters are particularly likable (I personally like Pete best), but you end up really attached to them, but the comedy is just so clever, fast and observational as well as horrible but there are some big names that have graced it's episodes from the world of Football and there's a great few eps with Jeff Goldblum to name one familiar actor - and he's his fabulous self as ever.Basically set around the antics of six friends who are part of a fantasy football league, and the lengths they will go to to win their league trophy - the Shiva, named after a plain girl who went to their highschool with them who is now a very attractive doctor and friend. Do not watch this if you don't like bad language, violence, drugs, reference to any body parts, bodily functions or anything of a sexual nature. Or if you are squeamish. Or delicate. Or of a nervous disposition. Currently on four series and I hope there are more.