Ballers: 3 best parts of There’s No Place Like Home, Baby
The season finale of Ballers went out with a bang in “There’s No Place Like Home, Baby,” as Spencer embarks on the fight of a lifetime.
Spencer Strasmore (Dwayne Johnson) is planning to fight the entire NCAA. His scorched earth plan will no doubt burn everyone else linked to the fight. That means Joe (Rob Corddry) is collateral damage, Vernon Littlefield (Donovan W. Carter) probably loses money, and Jason (Troy Garity) is implicated in the shady deal with Quincy (Eli Goree).
Unfortunately for everyone else, Spencer’s crusade has put them all on the back burner. Charles Greane (Omar Benson Miller) and the LA Rams are merely secondary. The skater kids and the Nike deal is nearly inconsequential. This is sports world Armageddon.
The fight is impossible.
Spencer’s crusade is obviously the key to the episode. The battle versus the NCAA is a detailed, complex matter being condensed into a few soundbites. One superb addition is when Candace (Emayatzy Corinealdi) calls from NFL HQ and threatens to revoke the Anderson Sports Management ability to represent clients. A lawsuit against the NCAA means one thing, but the NFL is a much larger machine. Between the two, it shows the fight is truly impossible. Spencer has finally bitten off far more than he can chew, and he can’t win. No matter how personally it impacted his family.
If Ballers allows him to win this fight, everyone involved in writing for this series should be fired. In fact, if he wins, the very next episode should involve magic, Bigfoot, and aliens, because the series will have taken a turn into fantasy land.
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Balls removed from purse
Charles suddenly became a General Manager. Enough of the doughy, emotional, kindhearted man supporting his friends. He took his balls out of his wife’s purse, grew a backbone, and acted like a real GM. Being in charge is difficult, and it’s more business than personal. So when Ricky tells him about the PTSD, it’s clear he’s done playing nice. He allows Ricky to sign a free agent contract while calling him every name in the book. It will be interesting to see Charles become a more cut-throat character in future seasons.
Multiple people get served.
Ballers has always been great at inserting comedy. Serving the NCAA with a lawsuit is a ballsy move, but how it was delivered was hilarious. A random guy walks into an elevator, asks an NCAA rep to hold an envelope, and then announces the legal serving. Being served means bad news. That’s just what Charles did when he served Ricky at a news conference by setting it all up in order to sign Kisan Teague (Kris Lofton). Finally, Spencer renouncing his involvement in ASM is his way of making things right, but it may as well be serving Joe papers.
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