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Stick Is Stuck on the Trauma Plot
The Owen Wilson golf comedy is feel-good TV built on a feel-bad foundation.
Owen Wilson, as Pryce “Stick” Cahill, is a divorced, washed-up former golf pro who blew up his career with an all-timer meltdown in the middle of a tournament and is now remarkably (but depressingly!) It even mostly manages to pull off the feat of making a boomer complaining about Zero’s they/them pronouns into a semi-charming runner, a challenge no other TV show should even consider if it does not have a performer with Marc Maron’s capacity for aggrieved compassion. Every story development is matched with a past event and then sent off into a little narrative breakout room to discuss their similarities and differences, like a team-building exercise translated into scripted television.
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