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Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty - Season 1 (2022)

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Show title: Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty

IMDb score: 8,3 (31.877)

Episodes: 10

Playing time: 9 hour and 46 minutes

Developed by: Max Borenstein and Jim Hecht

Stars: Quincy Isaiah, John C. Reilly and Jason Clarke

Origin: United States

Releasedate: Saturday 5 March 2022

First aired on: HBO (Verenigde Staten)

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Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty plot

Ten-part series about businessman Jerry Buss and the flamboyant LA Lakers, who changed basketball forever in the 1980s. The 1979-1980 playing season was a defining period for the LA Lakers and for the NBA (National Basketball Association) umbrella. The NBA, now an extremely successful organization, was on the brink of death. Clubs played in dilapidated gymnasiums and the league was dominated by the clubs from the east, led by the Boston Celtics, who had already won thirteen league titles by the start of that year. Jerry Buss, a flamboyant businessman with a background in show business, bought the loss-making Lakers in 1979 with a huge amount of bluff, thinking that the performance on the floor had to be combined with the know-how of Hollywood.

Episodes Season 1 (2022)

  1. 1. The Swan

    6 March 2022 (59 minutes)

  2. 2. Is That All There Is?

    13 March 2022 (58 minutes)

  3. 3. The Good Life

    20 March 2022 (55 minutes)

  4. 4. Who the F**k Is Jack McKinney?

    27 March 2022 (59 minutes)

  5. 5. Pieces of a Man

    3 April 2022 (59 minutes)

  6. 6. Memento Mori

    10 April 2022 (56 minutes)

  7. 7. Invisible Man

    17 April 2022 (1 hour)

  8. 8. Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough

    24 April 2022 (1 hour)

  9. 9. Acceptable Loss

    1 May 2022 (1 hour)

  10. 10. Promised Land

    8 May 2022 (1 hour)

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Actors and Actresses

Jerry West

Magic Johnson

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Claire Rothman

Linda Zafrani

Earvin Johnson Sr.

Donald Sterling

Michael Cooper

Earletha 'Cookie' Kelly

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FlorisV

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Strongly emphasized but very entertaining series about the Lakers. Main downside: too little basketball. The nonsense surrounding business and the soap opera-like developments in the background of Jerry Buss in particular are not nearly as interesting. On the other hand, there is a lot of beauty that only HBO can produce. For example, short but beautiful images of Indiana where Larry Bird grows up. But above all, of course, the exciting Showtime Lakers with a still very young Magic and all the troubles surrounding it.

Fantastic casting with a convincing Magic Johnson, always the charmer, zen master Kareem Abdul Jabbar and a very gruff but nicely intense Larry Bird. Brody looks too little like Pat Riley but he makes Pat an interesting and complex man to watch. Jason Clarke is very entertaining as hothead Jerry West although he was a lot calmer in real life. All examples of "how do we put even more drama in it". Paula Abdul could have gotten a little more attention as the leader of the cheerleaders. Those girls gave the whole tent a pole. And in what city could Showtime be better reinvented for basketball than LA?

As for the fourth wall: it is used much more (and much too much) in the first season. Also, here and there, unnecessary politics is brought into it (for example, with a sneer at the Donald or about the oppression of black by white, quite ironic when you see how many millions these dark guys rake in while it was a close call that Jerry Buss would have gone completely broke).

This season ends with the finals in 1980 against the Sixers of Doctor J, Julius Erving. An impressive piece of basketball history.

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