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Kate Hudson Basketball Sitcom ‘Running Point’ Is an Easy Layup, But Could Work on Its Long Game: TV Review
Kate Hudson and Mindy Kaling team up for Netflix basketball sitcom 'Running Point', an easy layup that could work on its long game.
The first, HBO’s “Winning Time,” dramatized the basketball team’s years of triumph in the 1980s; the latest, Netflix’s “ Running Point,” is both more contemporary and more fictional, though it has closer ties to the actual Lakers organization through owner Jeanie Buss and front office fixture Linda Rambis, both executive producers. Rom-com queen Kate Hudson takes on her first series lead role as Isla Gordon, a blatant Buss surrogate whose sudden promotion to president of her billionaire family’s crown jewel kicks the 10-episode season into gear. Besides Cam, Isla and newcomer Jackie, the current generation includes jockish GM Ness (Scott MacArthur) and CFO Sandy (Drew Tarver, of the dearly departed “The Other Two”), who has no interest in sports but a healthy one in the bottom line.
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