EPISODE
SEASON
The League - Season 1
Some friends who are all avid fantasy football fans try to balance their time between the league and their real lives. It becomes a challenge, though, when the good-natured competition gives way to a win-at-all-costs mentality, which begins to spill over into their relationships and even the workplace.
26 December 1969, USA
1 October 1989, Sacramento, California, USA
17 November 1974, Bismarck, North Dakota, USA
25 May 1976, San Francisco, California, USA
October 29, 2009
If you're easily offended, you will be appalled by "The League." If you chuckle at smutty, raunchy humor and profanity, this show offers dirty-minded comedic rewards.
October 29, 2009
All in all, it would be easier to give the macho, frat-house vibe a pass if the jokes were funny, but much of the humor in the first two episodes falls flat.
October 29, 2009
With a few more original situational jokes and male dirty secrets, "The League'' wouldn't feel played-out so quickly.
October 29, 2009
A kind of sociopathic "Sex and the City" for men that substitutes football for shoes and dope for cosmos.
October 29, 2009
This show's supposed to be the bawdier companion to "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia." It's bawdier all right, but not even remotely in the same comedy league.
October 29, 2009
Steadfastly crass in content, The League is generally subtle in execution.
October 29, 2009
FX has always had a good idea what viewers it's after, and the way TV works these days, a loyal cult can be enough. "The League" certainly has the goods to get one of those.
October 29, 2009
The show is weak, sometimes plain creepy, when it moves from fantasy football to male fantasy.
October 29, 2009
If you're going to do a show about fantasy football, then do it. Go big, or go home. As constructed, The League will leave no one happy.
October 29, 2009
Why would you want to watch a show about this lame league when you could just use the time to play in one yourself? Good questions. Too bad "The League" is too busy looking at boobs to give an answer.
