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Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty: California Dreaming (2022)
Party's over
While the show is never short on visual intrigue and exciting editing, it had shown some weakness in the reality of its characters. This episode threw that all out to give us raw drama that I found extremely effective. Feels as though the time for partying is over and everyone is finally taking the goals ahead seriously. This added a lot of believability to the otherwise spurious history. Buss and his mother, the Haywood conflict, and the coaching conflict were very well done. I'm glad the show has a sympathetic villain now!
Side note: hopefully this is the last time magic has to break another girl's heart which was becoming pretty tired and never had much effect on the plot. We get it. He was a womanizing superstar in the 70s/80s, but I don't think any of us are here for that. This is typical HBO though...
Overall: 10/10.