Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticIt doesn’t take long for “The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers” to both acknowledge and gently reject its roots.
Opening on a middle school hockey tryout with all the flashy pomp and circumstances of a primetime NHL game, the new Disney Plus series from Steve Brill, Cathy Yuspa and Josh Goldsmith makes it clear that the Ducks of 2021 are nothing like the scrappy underdogs of 1992.
Almost 30 years later, the Minnesota youth team has become exactly the kind of hyper-competitive behemoth that it once stood defiantly against.
The kids are ruthless, the coach even worse, and the stands are full of parents dreaming of a direct line to fancy colleges.
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