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‘A League of Their Own’ Is a Timeless Story Lost in Time: TV Review

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Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticThere’s something that feels a bit overextended about Amazon Prime Video’s new series adaptation of “A League of Their Own,” and it isn’t just the runtimes.With episodes of this eight-part season flirting with the hour mark — meaning that there’s several times as much series as there was of the 1992 film about the all-women Rockford Peaches baseball team — this show seems at times unsure of what to say next, or where to take its story.

And attempts to broaden the scope of that story can alternately present an admirable curiosity about what more can be said about the history of women in baseball and a tendency to avoid engaging history on its own terms.Here, as in the Penny Marshall-directed film, we’re in 1943 and following a group of female athletes, this time led by Carson (Abbi Jacobson, who also co-created the series with Will Graham).

Carson, whose husband is enlisted overseas, finds pleasure in the multiple escapes that baseball provides. She gets to compete and to flirt, and more, with a teammate (D’Arcy Carden).

Carson’s story, winningly played as a journey out of her shell by Jacobson, exists in parallel to that of Max (Chanté Adams).

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