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FX’s ‘Clipped’ Is a Fast-Paced, Fittingly Trashy Take on the Donald Sterling Scandal: TV Review
The six-episode FX miniseries centers on the 2014 scandal that led to the ouster of Clippers owner Donald Sterling over a tape of a racist rant.
Rivers and his players — condensed to starters Blake Griffin (Austin Scott), Chris Paul (J. Alphonse Nicholson), DeAndre Jordan (Sheldon Bailey), Matt Barnes (Sarunas J. Jackson) and JJ Redick (Charlie McElveen) — are the most sympathetic victims of Sterling’s repugnant rant, forced into the impossible choice of either continuing to make money for a man who sees them as subhuman or sacrificing income and opportunity as a result of his actions. Rich Sommer and Kelly AuCoin add even more levity as the hapless minions trying and failing to clean up Sterling’s mess in real time, and Weaver gives Shelly a deceptive sharpness, adapting as her character does from innocent old lady to canny operator, depending on what suits her. Except for Sterling, every major character gets a confidant who acts as the angel on their shoulder: Justine (Harriet Sansom Harris), a woman who actually left her loathsome, rich husband and pushes Shelly to do the same; Deja (Yvonna Pearson), an ex-VJ who advises Stiviano on the fleeting nature of fame; incredibly, LeVar Burton as himself, a fellow Black celebrity who spends his steam room sessions with Rivers discussing the tightrope of staying palatable to a mass audience without betraying your roots.
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