7 motivating TV shows about sports

1. league

• Comedy.
• USA 2009.
• Duration: 7 seasons.
• IMDb: 8,3.

FX sitcom from the fans of fantasy football. This type of game is very popular in the States, where professional sports fans can imagine yourself in the role of managers of their favorite teams. They are united in the league, gaining its own team of active players - players or basketball - and spend between a tournament where winning the match depends on the current statistics real athletes.

"League" sarcastically ridicules sports nordov, crying from the poor results of their players and fighting with each other in the hope to win the final prize of the tournament. Sometimes the characters begin to appear the worst people in the world, but this does not prevent them to enjoy endless boasting and superseroznym perception of their entertainment. The viewer must have an idea of ​​college football players and the modern NFL, another part of the joke is just incomprehensible.

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2. gymnasts

• Drama.
• USA 2009.
• Duration: 3 seasons.
• IMDb: 7,6.

Teen drama about four young gymnasts preparing for the performance at the Olympics. The series describes the emotional suffering, who are forced to move for the sake of the heroine career successAs well as their physical exhaustion, partially due to the forced starvation.

Apart from the traditional burdens of gymnastic competitions, drama and talk about sudden problems of public life, the battle for the sponsors and vnutrikomandnye rivalry. Surprisingly, the young actress managed not only to prepare for the roles, but not bad coped with sporting performances.

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3. remorse survivor

• Drama, comedy.
• USA 2014.
• Duration: 4 seasons.
• IMDb: 7,0.

Dramedi the beginning of the professional career of a young basketball player Cam, has just signed its first multi-million dollar contract. To overcome the hardships of life star Cam helps his agent and cousin Reggie, as well as the whole group support, including a strict mom, Cassie, seductive lesbian sister-Em-uncle Chuck and reckless Julius.

Surrounding the unusual luxury of starting to cause at Cam's remorse because of his old friends were left to live in a dirty suburb of Boston. So our hero starts to spend crazy money not only on cars business-class mansions and private planes, but also helps to develop the native quarter. And Reggie tries not to squander Cam entire amount in the first days.

The closest parallel seems the series "Entourage," although "Repentance survivor" is much more serious and does not bypass the sharp corners of racial inequality in the United States. Shaw produces one of the best NBA players LeBron James, who added to the script several stories from personal experience.

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4. Kingdom

• Drama.
• USA 2014.
• Duration: 3 seasons.
• IMDb: 8,4.

Drama about the fighters of mixed martial arts and their difficult destiny out of the ring. The protagonist - the owner of the combat sports club Elvi Culina. He is a former athlete, who became coach two of his sons, as well as fighter Ryan, recently released from prison and once again returned to a favorite sport in the hope to revive his career.

Martial arts connoisseurs will be pleasantly amazed at the quality of staged fights, for which actors many hours of paid classes with renowned coach Greg Jackson and UFC former champion Joe Stevenson.

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5. footballers

• Comedy, Drama.
• USA 2015.
• Duration: 3 seasons.
• IMDb: 7,6.

The hit comedy from HBO about the private life of current and former college football stars. Dwayne Johnson organically fit into the role of a former player NFL, who left football due to injury and became a financial advisor for busy athletes. Now he is involved in the organization of cash investments of its customers, and provides valuable career life tips and helps his former teammates to extricate himself from difficult personal turmoil. However, for his compelling voice of reason and radiant aura of success and well-being of hiding its own financial problems.

The plot does not shine with originality, but the cast skillfully displays this sitcom to a new level. Johnson's full commitment and a clear focus on male audience continues to hold the "footballers" in the list of the best contemporary comedies from HBO.

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6. Innings

• Drama.
• United States, 2016.
• Length: 1 season.
• IMDb: 7,4.

The main heroine of "Pitch" - the first woman to play professional baseball league team. 23-year-old Jean Baker is at the center of media attention, preparing for his first game for one of the MLB teams. After five years in the leagues of lower rank it seeks to consolidate its success, what is its unconditional support tough agent and owner of Amelia club, billionaire Frank that with the advent of Ginny not only increase ticket sales, but also seeks to establish equality in intersexual sport.

It is obvious that the reaction within the team is not so unequivocally positive, although the girl has and allies. Realism, baseball games, too, enough, and sometimes it seems that the series does not look, but the real match, the more that the producers have received from MLB the right to show the real teams and stadiums. The series is very dynamic and emotional, with a strong pilot episode, but unfortunately, the company closed its Fox | after the first season.

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7. shine

• Comedy, Drama.
• USA, 2017.
• Length: 1 season.
• IMDb: 8,2.

Exciting fresh dramedi from Netflix about female wrestling 1980s with a taste of the series "Orange - a hit of the season"Beauty and the beautiful performance of Alison Brie. She plays the role of the actress Ruth roving in search of work from one audition to another. This path leads her to view the new member of the female wrestling league to which his career has come hack and former director of low-brow films Sam Sylvia.

In addition, Ruth responded to the casting of a lot of candidates, among whom kaskadorsha Cherry, daughter of family wrestlers Carmen and a lot of girls who do not have a clue what to do to ring. Before filming began only a matter of weeks, and our participants have to choose the characters, learn the basic techniques and tricks to become a close-knit team. But to achieve the desired harmony is not possible because of the emergence of the former best friend, Ruth, Debbie, has become a real catalyst squabbles and fights unrehearsed.

Show captivates its liveliness, humor, a strong emotional component, and eroticism. 10 half-hour episodes ingested at one go and have a long and pleasant aftertaste reconsider forcing favorite scene again and again.