EPISODE
SEASON
The League - Season 1
A comedy series that follows a group of old friends in a fantasy football league who care deeply about one another -- so deeply that they use every opportunity to make each other's lives miserable.
21 July 1977, Kansas, USA
17 November 1972, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
30 May 1971, New York City, New York, USA
13 October 1964, Chicago, Illinois, USA
26 January 1977, New York, USA
22 February 1982, Kathmandu, Nepal
2 September 1948, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA
2 March 1989, New York City, New York, USA
1 January 1983, Manchester, New Hampshire, USA
19 July 1981
October 29, 2009
The show is weak, sometimes plain creepy, when it moves from fantasy football to male fantasy.
October 29, 2009
Why would you want to watch a show about this lame league when you could just use the time to play in one yourself? Good questions. Too bad "The League" is too busy looking at boobs to give an answer.
October 29, 2009
A kind of sociopathic "Sex and the City" for men that substitutes football for shoes and dope for cosmos.
October 29, 2009
If you're easily offended, you will be appalled by "The League." If you chuckle at smutty, raunchy humor and profanity, this show offers dirty-minded comedic rewards.
October 29, 2009
This show's supposed to be the bawdier companion to "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia." It's bawdier all right, but not even remotely in the same comedy league.
October 29, 2009
All in all, it would be easier to give the macho, frat-house vibe a pass if the jokes were funny, but much of the humor in the first two episodes falls flat.
October 29, 2009
Steadfastly crass in content, The League is generally subtle in execution.
October 29, 2009
With a few more original situational jokes and male dirty secrets, "The League'' wouldn't feel played-out so quickly.
October 29, 2009
If you're going to do a show about fantasy football, then do it. Go big, or go home. As constructed, The League will leave no one happy.
October 29, 2009
FX has always had a good idea what viewers it's after, and the way TV works these days, a loyal cult can be enough. "The League" certainly has the goods to get one of those.