A League Of Their Own serves up a whole new crop of Peaches

Prime Video's fun-as-hell sports dramedy expands the 1992 film's scope but keeps its winning spirit

devotes time and care to a vast array of characters. To name just a few, there’s Greta , Carson’s love interest whose natural charm conceals a lifetime’s worth of baggage; Max’s best friend Clance , who dreams of drawing her own superhero comics; and Lupe and Esti , the Peaches’ only Latina players, who must navigate a whole different brand of racism than the series’ Black characters.League

is funny as hell to boot, using a quasi-contemporary conversation style and modern slang that feels oddly at home in the 1940s setting. That also extends to the show’s soundtrack, which features artists from the era like Benny Goodman mixed in with rock bangers from Heart and the Runaways, plus ’70s soul from Maxine Weldon and Irma Thomas.This mashup of styles and genres lands largely thanks to the series’ MVP cast.

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