"A League Of Their Own" Is A Queer Reboot With A Purpose, And A Show To Add To Your Must-See List
Jurassic Park to The Addams Family, there are reboots for things that aren't even a decade old, or that anyone even asked for, but what truly qualifies a good reboot?
Does it have to surpass the original or honor it? Does it have to go its own path, or should it try to do something new with a familiar concept?There are a million different ways to qualify a reboot as good or bad, but in Amazon Prime's A League of Their Own reboot, it's clear this reboot is an effort to update a classic to bring it closer to the real story, one filled to the brim with queerness.Set during World War II, the landscape of 1940s Chicago is rife with change and the resistance to any form of it.
When a local business man tries to use the first women's baseball league to draw a crowd, women from all across North America scramble to join this wave of change.Carson Shaw, played by Abbi Jacobson, introduces us to her world through the societal standards she clearly doesn't fit or enjoy, escaping the suburb life and a husband away at war.
After joining the team, she and her teammates find their excitement watered down by the resistance from the white men around them, who believe people will only show up if the women look attractive, illustrating the core struggles of this show.
