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- 2020
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- 2020
- TV-MA
- Netflix
Summary Coach Ben Hopkins (Jake Johnson) helps a terrible high school basketball team in hopes it will lead to opportunities to the big leagues in this comedy created by Ben Hoffman.
Created By: Ben Hoffman
- 2020
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 2020
- TV-MA
- Netflix
Hoops
Season 1 Premiere: Aug 21, 2020
35
3.8
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Summary Coach Ben Hopkins (Jake Johnson) helps a terrible high school basketball team in hopes it will lead to opportunities to the big leagues in this comedy created by Ben Hoffman.
Created By: Ben Hoffman
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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11% Positive
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22% Mixed
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67% Negative
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
35
11% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
22% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
67% Negative
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
It’s easy to dismiss Hoops as just curse-filled and crass. But the cast is great, and you start to root for Coach Hopkins and his team by the end of the first episode. It isn’t always funny, but it’s just funny enough and has enough heart to be a decent show.
By the tenth episode there's enough going right here to make one hopeful for future seasons, but it still feels like a disappointment given the pedigree. At the very least, Hoops passes the time until somebody just gives Ron Funches a show of his own.
[“Hoops” doesn’t] seem to have much interest in evolving its characters beyond their most basic loglines. That wouldn’t be as much of an issue for a foulmouthed animated comedy if it weren’t for the fact that this foulmouthed animated comedy isn’t half the joke machine it would need to be in order to justify its total lack of nuance.
Hoops is a show about an immature man and his immature teenage charges that doesn’t aspire to anything more than making immature jokes and then, often, repeating those same immature jokes. ... There is some funny buried in Hoops, if you can get past the more off-putting moments to find it. But that’s hard to do.
“Hoops” is animated because no network would greenlight a show about an asshole like Ben Hopkins if it were live-action. That may be just barely enough for the most loyal Jake Johnson fans. Everyone else should find another game, cartoon, or literally anything else to watch.
It is filled with hateful stereotypes.
“Hoops” proves that excessive cussing is just like canned laughter when it comes to comedy, in that abuse of either shows the extent of a show's desperation. Ben's profane outrage becomes tiresome pretty quickly.
User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 32 User Ratings
3.8
34% Positive
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6% Mixed
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59% Negative
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19 Ratings
User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 32 User Ratings
3.8
34% Positive
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
6% Mixed
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
59% Negative
19 Ratings
19 Ratings
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Production Company:
- Bento Box Entertainment
- Pepper Hill Productions
- Walcott Company
- Lord Miller
- 20th Century Fox Television
- Netflix
- Fox Television Animation
Initial Release Date: Aug 21, 2020
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-MA
