We often talk about how feature films and streaming series based on true stories will engage in poetic license, ranging from imagined conversations to compressed timelines to composite characters to rearranging events for dramatic purposes. This is how it works.
While Season 2 of the vibrant HBO series “Winning Time” is faithful to the well-documented history of the legendary 1980s “Showtime” Los Angeles Lakers, it’s no exception to the poetic license rule — and it actually responds to some of the criticism from real-life Lakers figures of Season 1 with some of the most comprehensive and entertaining press notes I’ve ever encountered.
