I’m no champion of sports analogies, but if you enter a game, you better be ready to leave it all on the court. Disney’s Big Shot, from David E. Kelley, Dean Leroy, and Brad Garrett, is positioned as a touching sports show about the relationship between a coach and his players, but it lacks the stakes that ground this genre and make a story compelling.
John Stamos plays Marvyn Korn, a college basketball coach looking for a comeback because of his poor likability despite an impressive record of titles. Korn ends up at an all-girls’ private high school in California, thanks to an overzealous parent who paid for the new gym and wants to ensure a basketball scholarship for his daughter. Marvyn has his own teen daughter back in Chicago (Sophia Mitri Schloss) but the universal expectations for his new job are low; he will fail, whether by driving everyone away or simply losing game after game. Read more…
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