It’s reasonable for fans to be wary of any remakes or reimaginings of their favorite movies or television shows. Half the time they come out as watered-down copies of the original, and even the creatively successful ones can ultimately still feel more like hollow cash-grabs than genuinely meaningful art.
That brings us to “A League of Their Own,” Prime Video’s television adaptation of the beloved 1992 Penny Marshall film that featured a fictionalized version of the real-life All-American Girls Professional Baseball League that operated in the 1940s and ‘50s. The long-awaited series, which was co-created by “Broad City” star Abbi Jacobson and shot throughout western Pennsylvania last summer and fall, is finally making its debut Friday.
Unsurprisingly, expectations for this one have been sky high since the second it was announced. “A League of Their Own” is a classic sports movie that has been resonating with multiple generations of cinephiles for 30 years. If Jacobson and co-creator Will Graham had gotten this one wrong, they probably would have never heard the end of it.
