Because the A League Of Their Own series hits the mark when it comes to lesbian portrayal

Nothing has done me more good in this too humid and gloomy back-to-school season than wedging comfortably in front of the show. A separate championship (An extraordinary team, in French). I would be wrong to sell it to you as a simple series of feeling good. We are talking here of a series not only funny and brilliantly writtenor a very tall cast full of already crossed faces, like that of D’arcy Carden revealed by The good placeor the new ones we have already very very much looking forward to seeing you again.

A separate championshipis a real sporting epic, that of the beginnings of Professional baseball league for American girls in the 1940s in the United States. As the men are sent to the front in Europe, the baseball league makes the decision to found women’s teams. A bold bet in an America well anchored in its gross misogyny.

Self A league of its own tells you something, it is also because this story had already been told in a film of the same name released in the 90s, worn by Geena Davis (just released Thelma and Louise) but also Madonna, Lori Petty, Tom Hanks and Rosie O’Donnell.

A dip in the America of the 40s

Why do a reboot in 2022? Already to tell a historical context, and through it a whole other story. Or rather stories.

A separate championship (available on Amazon Prime) focuses on two women: the first Carson Shaw (Abbi Jacobson), who takes advantage of her husband’s absence to try her luck and become a professional baseball player. Joining the Peaches team will not be just a revelation on the pitch, as she will fall under the spell of Greta Gill (D’Arcy Carden), who is as outgoing as she is shy and silly. Next, Maxine Chapman (Chanté Adams, a revelation!), Exceptional pitcher who is refused evidence to join the Peaches by racist coaches. He has only one goal and one ambition, that of playing. It is also a secret, that she has no intention of settling down with a man or working in his mother’s hairdressing salon …

Through them and all a gallery of charismatic actorsthe series appropriately explores environmental sexism, the racism of a society in which whites and blacks live apart, but also rooted and trivialized homophobia.

Undisputed crush on Lupe (Roberta Colindrez) and Jess (Kelly McCormack), whose we would really like a series just for the two of them where we used to see them drinking, smoking cigarettes, wearing super classy clothes and flirting with girls (I know, it’s light as pitch, but that’s really all I expect).

An unexpected representation of lesbians

In the way ofOrange is the new black a few years ago, the series co-created by Will Graham and Abbi Jacobson showcases a slew of female characters who are not only fabulously endearing, but also defy chains and stereotypes, butchers with a tender heart and fem fatali, proud and big mouths, love and sisterhood, true female friendships as we rarely see them but whose strength, audacity and tenderness we know, you want some here. And humor, because that’s what it does too A separate championship so comforting and precious.

The series tells in eight episodes the reality of lesbian and bisexual women in this period of the history of the United States, where living one’s identity and one’s loves sometimes amounted to putting oneself in danger, risking jail or a psychiatric hospital. . But those lives were possible, clandestine and hidden, but also joyful when it has been possible to find someone who looks like us.

Co-creator and co-writer of the series, actress Abbi Jacobson (whom we adored and revered in the incredible Wide city) declared himself bisexual in 2018 and recently got engaged to Jodi Balfour. It is very clear to see her playing Carson on the show that this experience fueled and inspired her. “It resonates with me because it is very similar to my story”he told them. “I came to terms with my sexuality very late, so you can come out even when you’re my age. ”

A second season is already in preparation and we hope it lives up to this flawless success.

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