{"id":19426,"date":"2020-08-24T12:01:19","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T12:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shows4.com\/mobile\/?p=19426"},"modified":"2021-03-08T09:55:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T09:55:00","slug":"hoops-review-netflixs-animated-airball-substitutes-profanity-for-jokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/?p=19426","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Hoops\u2019 Review: Netflix\u2019s Animated Airball Substitutes Profanity for Jokes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding: 6px\">\nBen Hopkins&#8217; crass comedy follows an angry, immoral basketball coach who makes Bobby Knight look like Red Auerbach.<br \/>\nThe third episode of Netflix\u2019s adult animated comedy \u201cHoops\u201d opens with a horse funeral. Zipper, a 20-year-old stallion beloved by his owner, Shannon (voiced by Natasha Leggero), passed away after a full, presumably rich life at his owner\u2019s Kentucky farm, and Shannon is delivering an uplifting eulogy to an uncharacteristically large gathering of mourners. The only problem is that every time she says something nice about her horse, two bumbling ranch hands do something awful to its remains. First, they drop Zipper\u2019s massive body off the side of their truck. One leg \u201cbreaks off,\u201d his teeth are knocked out, and, when she finally sends them away so she can finish the funeral in peace, they run Zipper over, making his eyes bulge out like that alien-looking stress ball.<br \/>\nThe joke here isn\u2019t all that fresh. Contrasting sweet intentions with disturbing reality is a hallmark of shock comedy; so much so, that in 2020 it takes more than showing an upsetting act or cursing up a storm to get laughs. People are less easily startled and quicker to recognize familiar beats, and rarely does creator Ben Hoffman try to subvert expectations during \u201cHoops.\u201d Instead, he eagerly leans into repeating the same profane bits again and again, exemplifying the belief that Stewie\u2019s elongated critique of Brian\u2019s nonexistent novel is the pinnacle of modern comedy. \u201cHoops\u201d leans on extremely crude but lazy gags throughout its first 10 episodes, without ever appearing to realize that all it\u2019s doing is beating a dead horse.\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 5px;padding-top: 5px\" align=\"center\"><strong>Related Videos<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_75038\"  width=\"1140\" height=\"641\"  data-origwidth=\"1140\" data-origheight=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OP4VYnQ5q3Q?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&rel=1&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-timeline\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jakejohnson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">Tweets by jakejohnson<\/a> <\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 5px;padding-top: 5px\" align=\"center\"><strong>Style to wear<\/strong><\/div>\n<div id='sa_invalid_postid'>Slide Anything shortcode error: A valid ID has not been provided<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Hopkins&#8217; crass comedy follows an angry, immoral basketball coach who makes Bobby Knight look like Red Auerbach. 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