The League
The League
TV-MA | 29 October 2009 (USA)
SEASON & EPISODES
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  • Reviews
    realnasirthedon

    I'm so glad this show is back. It has consistently been one of my favorite series on TV for the last few years.While last season left something to be desired this season has already started off with a bang. The Draft Shows are always some of the best. The writing is so smart and there are so many payoffs for longtime viewers. The same device was used in How I Met Your Mother and it works on this show as well.I would like to have the stories focus more around fantasy football as the catalyst for the stories. That was my main complaint of last season. They got too far away from fantasy and focused more on sit com plot structures. The "Dirty Randy And Rafi" episode was one of the worst of the entire season because there was no football in it.Hopefully this season will return back to their roots and be more football oriented.Still this is one of the best shows on TV.

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    TonyCamonte84

    The first season was funny. Nothing groundbreaking, but entertaining and funny. A solid 7/10. The 2nd season was quite a let-down. It felt a bit forced and less original.But since then it has become absolutely awful. The jokes are just cliché and can often be seen from miles away. He's cleaning up his stains in his crutch with the au pair's photo lying around... and surprise: The au pair comes in thinking he's masturbating. How originally funny! Or they ask the daughter to put in the DVD at some Jewish fest, which is at the place where we previously saw them put the porn DVD. Did not see that coming! Or those extremely hilarious original situations where the dialogue makes them seem gay to outsiders listening in.I'm giving it a 5 as the first season is really worth watching, but the rest just gets increasingly terrible.

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    HelenMary

    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.

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    rockgod1313

    First let me say that while I am a HUGE football, and fantasy football fan, I have shown this show to many of my friends who know nothing about football and they still love it.An often overlooked fact about this show is that it is "Semi-Scripted" meaning that instead of a script the actors get more or less an outline of what events need to happen in the scene. Making nearly all the dialog improved. This just adds to the natural hilarity of the show.The cast is arguably the funniest group of people on TV, with only FX Network neighbors, The Always Sunny Gang, to compete.Watch this show....Now!

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