Will Ferrell as Lonnie “Hawk” Hawkins is an utter miscalculation of characterization and performance that turns what could be middling comedy into an unbearable slog. Photo: Colleen E Hayes/Netflix |
There’s never been a better time for people who enjoy sports comedy. The Mindy Kaling basketball series, Running Point, just came back for its second season this summer. Ted Lasso will be returning for a revived season four in August. There’s Stick, the Apple TV golf series starring Owen Wilson. The Jake Johnson pickleball movie, The Dink, will be available on Apple later this month. It’s a banner season for anyone who wants to watch jokey weirdos hanging out while hitting, kicking, or throwing balls. Because of this, though, there is absolutely no good reason to watch Netflix’s new golf comedy, The Hawk. Whatever appeal there might once have been in a show where Will Ferrell dry-humps a putting green in an extended lip-sync performance of Sisqó’s “Thong Song” has vanished more thoroughly than a golf ball at the bottom of a water trap.
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