Prime Video shares rousing first teaser for A League Of Their Own series
Abbi Jacobson, Chanté Adams, D'Arcy Carden, and Kate Berlant play ball in the new trailer
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Get ready, baseball fans, because it’s nearly time for A League Of Their Own. The series, based on Penny Marshall’s beloved film of the same name, is set to premiere in August, and on Tuesday Prime Video released the first footage from the show (below).
The reboot, created by Broad City’s Abbi Jacobson and Mozart In The Jungle’s Will Graham, once again follows the women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, which was founded to keep the sport alive while a majority of male players were off fighting World War II. Rather than revisiting the familiar faces of the film’s Rockford Peaches, the show follows a team of brand-new characters.
The rousing teaser trailer is brimming with good ol’ fashioned Girl Power, and as such, is appropriately set to Stevie Nicks’ “Edge Of Seventeen.” Without dialogue, the trailer doesn’t give too much plot away, but there’s lots of athleticism and camaraderie on display, with a dash of Rosie the Riveter vibes to boot. And is that a charged romantic moment we’re sensing between Jacobson’s and D’Arcy Carden’s character?
That idea probably isn’t too far off the mark, as Graham told The Hollywood Reporter back in 2020 that he original conceived the show after he had “started looking into the queer history of the league.” Jacobson also discussed her interest in incorporating the Black women who played in the Negro American League, and based on the trailer, those characters will play a prominent role (in contrast to the film’s single unnamed Black woman throwing a ball from the stands). In other words, the eight-episode drama is shaping up to be more inclusive and comprehensive than its big-screen predecessor.
Alongside Jacobson and Carden, the series also stars Chanté Adams, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Roberta Colindrez, Nick Offerman, Saidah Arrika Ekulona, Kate Berlant, Kendall Johnson, Kelly McCormack, Alex Désert, Priscilla Delgado, Aaron Jennings, Molly Ephraim, Melanie Field and Dale Dickey.
A League Of Their Own premieres on Prime Video on August 12, 2022.
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More D’Arcy Carden. She’s underutilized in Barry.
They’ve given her a bit more to do this season. She’s hilarious as Sally’s assistant.
That elevator scene was a master class in holding your shit together.
If this is a success, I hope they can figure out how to stretch out WWII as long as they can!
Sounds like a job for Alan Alda.
well done!
The league doesn’t shut down when WW2 ends so they can tell a interesting story about the transition.
No need. The AGPBL didn’t fold until after the 1954 season (heck, the league’s biggest season wasn’t until 1948, 3 years after the end of WW2).That’s 12 TV seasons’ worth of material if they went 1 TV season per AGPBL season!
This comment gives me a hilarious vision of a White House aide giving Harry Truman the ‘stretch for time’ motion while he’s addressing the nation.
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You had me at D’Arcy Carden.
They had me at D’
They had me at [intake of breath]
“D’Souza!”
Ha ha, PF77 likes the D’
And Nick Offerman. And Dale Dickey. This show cast a few ringers.
A League of Their Own – Official Teaser | Prime Video at 0:00 she’s Frances Sternhagen and the mining worker who goes psychotic and tries to murder the whore in the brothel and one of the medtechs who come to the scene in the movie Outland only she’s Frances Sternhagen’s character when she was young working as a medtech for whatever offworld mining conglomerate that was in the movie the medtech overalls hat equipment bag is one of the illustrations in the concept art and I think in the storyboards for the movie Blade Runner she’s in the background of one of Syd Mead’s automobiles of the future cities of the future industrial design illustrations the actress is supposed to remind you of Hailee Steinfeld who Amazon Prime Video has just publicly called a bad tempered psychotic whore didn’t look at the rest of the video
No Marla Hooch??? BOOO!
You know, Amazon is a LOT of things, BUT…thanks to Amazon, they rebuilt our baseball field at the school i work for into a legit stadium as they shot some of the show there.
That’s awesome. Would love to see some before and after shots if you have them.
Before: https://visitmonroeville.com/sports_venues/cnx-sports-complex-at-turner-valley-2/After:
WOW what an upgrade. Thanks again for sharing!!!
Love it. The women look like real players, and with those ridiculous bulky mitts from those days, that had to be a learning curve.And if anyone was going to be not-Tom-Hanks-as-the-coach… Nick Offerman is a perfect choice.
Wonder it it’ll follow the film in showcasing the actual injuries the actresses got while filming the baseball scenes.
That youtube comments section is already a cesspool.
Did you expect anything less?
“appropriately set to Stevie Nicks’ “Edge Of Seventeen””Does John Lennon get murdered in this?
Hopefully it’ll still feature an annoying kid getting whacked hard in the face to a gleeful “Got him!”
Is this supposed to be a re-make or a continuation? Looks like it has potential if it’s a continuation, but really hope it’s not a re-make of the classic movie.
is appropriately set to Stevie Nicks’ “Edge Of Seventeen.”Which is what I think of when it comes to the WWII-era… I mean, I gonna watch the shit out of this because 1. I love Abbi Jacobson 2. I love the movie 3. I love baseball 4. Ok, that one’s a lie 5. Maybe this will fill the GLOW-shaped hole in my heart. But the music choice to introduce this to the world is irritating. Even when its not the 80s, we can’t seem to get away from the 80s!
She didn’t throw the ball from the stands. She threw it from foul territory near the crappy segregated stands.
yeah, and I kinda get but also don’t get the shit the movie now gets about just having that one scene regarding black players not being able to play in the AAGPBL. That wasn’t the story or point of the movie. I think acknowledging it and moving on was fine for that particular movie.
Having seen this for the first time just recently, I think it definitely deserves shit for that scene. It is less than fifteen seconds and is basically “doesn’t this stink? but hey, this character smiled at a black person, so this movie and its characters are now on the right side of history!”. You either need way more or nothing, but right now it feels like it just exists to rub people the wrong way.
If this movie were made today, yeah, this should definitely (and would be) different. But 30 years ago, it’s somewhat astonishing that it was even mentioned in the first place. I’m sure some studio exec argued against it. I don’t think ignoring it completely would’ve been better. it was good that they included it, but of course in the era of no good deed being good enough, it gets shit on today. It’s historically accurate, and history, largely, sucks.
I am curious to see how this series addresses the segregation, since historically there were no black women in the AAGPBL, and women weren’t exactly welcomed with open arms in the Negro Leagues either, despite at least one woman owning a team.
I think you’re giving it a little bit too much credit. It was 1992, not 1962. They’re “mentioning it”, was showing a random unspeaking black woman on screen for a couple seconds to throw a ball. I’m sure plenty of people had no clue of what was even intended to be implied by that, and it certainly feels weird that the moment of acknowledging explicit societal racism moment tonally feels like “oh isn’t that nice.”I’m not say the scene is evil or anything, but it’s weird and off-putting. I’d cut it or do something more. I don’t think patting yourself on the back for acknowledging racism is bad is especially bold, even in the 90s.
Need Jimmy Dugan origin story.
Weird to use a song about Stevie Nicks committing statutory rape to promote this show, but whatever.
happy to see abbi and darcy on screen again!hoping for a bevers cameo just like a glimpse in the bleachers.
Abbi’s love of Bed Bath & Beyond on Broad City is one of my favorite random running gags ever
I spent the summer before and first few weeks of third grade on the IN set for the Rockford Peaches field (I was a glorified stunt double for the bratty Stilwell character and the scene I did film was reshot). That this series drops on my birthday 31 years later, while I know isn’t intentional, feels like a hilarious dig on my account lol.
Looks like it’s aiming to fill the GLOW-shaped hole in our hearts – fine by me, but I guess the more dramatic tone raises the question: there IS crying in baseball?