This queer remake of A League of Their Own is an absolute must-watch that didn’t get a fraction of the credit it deserved. Abbi Jacobson, half of the brains behind Broad City, co-created, co-wrote, and starred in this masterpiece, and we desperately need another season.
Set in the 1940s, a women’s baseball team rises to stardom as they progress in the new All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. As Jacobson herself only came out at 32, she tenderly captures the pain of the characters who were forced to live life closeted.
What we love the most about this remake is the addition of the storyline of baseball obsessed Max – as an African American woman, she is rejected from both the African American men’s baseball teams and the white women’s teams. Her struggle with her own identity addresses the intersections of race, gender and sexuality in a way that many narratives fail to do.
