The third episode of Sneakerheads, Netflix's new half-hour shoe aficionado comedy, features one of my favorite pieces of tricky, oddball celebrity guest casting in recent memory.
The best comparison I can make, every bit as inside baseball as the Sneakerheads cameo, was Adrien Brody's appearance as himself on Showtime's short-lived Andrew Dice Clay vehicle Dice, a turn that left me conflicted because I loved that episode but wasn't fully prepared to endorse the rest of the show around it.
Overall, Sneakerheads is a mixed bag, fitting into the often-neglected subgenre of fashion-based shows aimed at straight guys, like a West Coast version of HBO's denim-centric How To Make It in America.
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