The Bronze is a painfully funny portrait of a strikingly deranged and clueless young woman. Hope Annabelle Gregory (Melissa Rauch) is a celebrity in her home town of Amherst Ohio. She won the bronze in gymnastics at the Rome Olympics several years earlier, even after suffering a career-ending foot injury. Hope lives at home with her kind mailman dad Stan (Gary Cole), and avoids getting a day job at all costs. Her entitled life mostly consists of eating free meals at Sbarro while being rude to everyone she encounters. Her ex-coach dies and bequeaths Hope $500,000 contingent she gets the money only if she coaches the young hometown gymnastics phenom Maggie Townsend (Haley Lu Richardson) in her quest for Olympic fame. Also interested in Maggie’s future are the local gym manager Ben (or, as Hope calls him “Twitchy”, because of some unfortunate facial tics -played by Thomas Middleditch) and Lance...