Season 3 - Episode 3
FX (US)
When I was notified of its existance just a few short months agao, The League very quickly became one of my favourite shows. I burned through the 19 episodes of Seasons 1 and 2 in a little over a week, and was taken in by the exploits of the five friends (and one of their wives) in a fantasy football league, and the chaos they got up to during the season. Season 3 has so far featured Sidney Rice with a saxaphone, Seth Rogan directing a porno movie and said porno being shown at a Jewish party. How can any of this be bad?
"The Au Pair" starts with a dating video starring Andre that Taco has inexplicably been charged with directing. Andre's ridiculous attempts at manliness, coupled with Taco's ridiculous direction (scenes of animals mating spliced in, and him entering an operating theatre while eating a bag of tortilla chips) sets the hilarious tone for a good episode, filled with the type of nonsense you would expect from a group of grown up, yet still pretty immature friends. Effectively, Ruxin has hired a hot young nanny for his son, and the guys come round to his house under a variety of rubbish pretences in order to ogle her. (Only the tag scene actually made this a little creepy - the girl was meant to be just out of high school - but we'll forgive that for being a pretty funny joke).
The other plots featured Pete stealing Andre's dates while Taco cracked one liners and shagged waitresses (basically just being Taco) - and Kevin "cheating" on his wife and former team-mate (now rival, but still wife) Jenny with fantasy guru Matthew Berry (sadly not the English comic actor Matt Berry - what a treat that would have been!). The three plots this week interweaved nicely, and there were some really good jokes throughout.
The League is a show that you don't have to be an American Football fan to enjoy, but it does help with some of the jokes. But on episodes like this, when it takes it straight back to basics, there are few betetr sitcoms out there.
****
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