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- 2024
- TV-MA
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- 2024
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Summary L.A. Clippers coach Doc Rivers (Laurence Fishburne) is trying to win a championship when secretly recorded racist comments by owner Donald Sterling (Ed O'Neill) are leaked in the limited series based on the "ESPN 30 for 30" podcast The Sterling Affairs.
Created By: Gina Welch
- 2024
- TV-MA
- HULU
- 2024
- TV-MA
- HULU
Clipped (2024)
Season 1 Premiere: May 4, 2024
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4.8
Summary L.A. Clippers coach Doc Rivers (Laurence Fishburne) is trying to win a championship when secretly recorded racist comments by owner Donald Sterling (Ed O'Neill) are leaked in the limited series based on the "ESPN 30 for 30" podcast The Sterling Affairs.
Created By: Gina Welch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 20 Critic Reviews
72
80% Positive
16 Reviews
16 Reviews
20% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
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Forty years of playing cranks on screen has given Ed O’Neill a particular understanding for Sterling’s quirks, gripes and foibles that few others in his field can claim. Laurence Fishburne serves up a reminder of his Olivier-like range, down to the raspy voice of Doc Rivers, the Black coach who bucks up to Sterling. Double Oscar nominee Jacki Weaver delivers yet another powerhouse performance as Shelly Sterling. .... Where Coleman is truly on her game is when she’s digging into the more closely guarded textures of Stiviano’s personality
“Clipped” is flashy, maybe even a little messy to begin with. But if you let its soapy saga wash over you, you’ll realize that cleaning one apple at a time is no way to address a barrel filled with toxic sludge.
In a rare victory for the Clippers over the Lakers, “Clipped” is the second recent drama series devoted to one of Los Angeles’ NBA teams but also the superior one, chronicling the spectacular fall of owner Donald Sterling. Rotating among four principal players, with Ed O’Neill as Sterling, it’s an all-star lineup covering a story filled with the kind of outlandish characters that require little embellishment.
Though “Clipped” regularly exercises poetic license, it’s a spiritually accurate re-creation of one of the most tumultuous and bizarre chapters in NBA history.
“Clipped” does indeed have those things going for it, as well as strong, anchoring performances from Laurence Fishburne as Coach Doc Rivers, Cleopatra Coleman as V. Stiviano, Ed O’Neill as Sterling and Jacki Weaver as Shelly Sterling. .... But it can also ring a little immature, and what the show gains in aerodynamics it loses in nuance and texture. “Clipped” loves repetition and avoids subtlety.
Welch has a lot on her mind but not all of it coheres. The show is strongest when it’s less focused on Stiviano’s grasping desire for fame or recreating her awkward interview with Barbara Walters (in which she clunkily described herself as Sterling’s “right hand arm man”) and more interested in longstanding issues of racism in the NBA and the tense debates Sterling’s bigotry provoked for Rivers and the players.
Despite some good performances, particularly by Laurence Fishburne as Doc Rivers, and some isolated scenes, it doesn’t offer up nearly enough that’s new to merit the dramatization. .... The storytelling itself is mostly lacking. It’s six largely by-the-numbers hours.
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Production Company:
- Color Force
- FX Productions
Initial Release Date: May 4, 2024
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-MA