[8.3/10] One of the best episode of The League there’s been. I enjoy Pete pouting and the group having to do shared custody between him and Andre given the bad blood between them. Andre and Meegan make for a surprisingly amusing comic duo! The two of them being into accents and costumes and even fantasy football is adorably disgusting, and the rest of the group’s reaction to it is a laugh. The whole taking sides theme works here, and setting everything up for the titular Gilded Age-themed draft is outstanding.
That draft itself is one of the show’s best comic setpieces, and I liked almost every part of it. Taco not understanding how it works and trying to buy a vowel and phone a friend is dumb but a big laugh from me, with the scene having a great comic rhythm. Rafi looking at people in 1800s garb having an auction draft and mistaking it for a slave auction is (probably unwittingly) a nice bit of satire on some of the awkward optics of fantasy football and, frankly, professional football overall. And the rest of the group’s reactions to the rest of the period-appropriate proceedings are a laugh as well.
And hey, while I tend to slate this show for going over the top, I’ll cop to enjoying seeing Andre (or rather, “totally not Paul Scheer’s stunt double”), surprise everyone by going all Kingsman on the local restaurateurs trying to get revenge on the group for Rafi kidnapping one of their compatriots. It’s set up reasonably well, and the fight choreography is surprisingly excellent for this show.
Overall, the comic dynamic on this one was outstanding, with a lot of nice back and forths and laugh lines, and the right mix of ridiculousness and intragroup beefs coming to a head.
Shout by TheLazyReviewerBlockedParent2023-12-09T01:14:52Z
Some of the stuff felt like the show of old, but man Taco and Rafi bring this entire show down.