Amazon's ALeagueofTheirOwn is the rare TV reimagining that actually manages to feel necessary. It premieres Friday, August 12 on Prime Video.
If a TV show is going to retell and stretch out the story of a classic film, then it is incumbent upon said series to justify its own existence. It can’t just tell the same story again in an entertaining way. In order to be successful, the series has to bring something new to the table — a new angle, perspective, or subversion that makes it feel like it is building upon what came before it rather than simply retreading familiar ground.
Created by Abbi Jacobson and Will Graham, Amazon’s A League of Their Own focuses on the lives of the women who travel from across the country in 1943 to join the Rockford Peaches, one of the teams in the budding All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
By centering itself around both Max’s storyline and the secret queer lives of the Peaches’ team members, A League of Their Own is able to expand the scope of its 1992 predecessor by not only exploring the sexism that women faced in the 1940s, but also the discrimination that Black and queer women did as well. On the one hand, its increased interest in injustice results in A League of Their Own often falling short of the comedic highs of its predecessor.
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