The Dwayne Johnson led Ballers comes to a surprisingly low-key but reasonably satisfying conclusion in this fifth season of HBO’s hit show.
Throughout its entire run, Ballers has been a popular but rarely talked about hit (with some surprising fans, this was where Christopher Nolan discovered John David Washington, and not his BlacKkKlansman performance, for the lead role in the upcoming Tenet).
In this final season, Spenser (Dwayne Johnson) is called out of retirement to become an owner of an NFL team, alongside all of the regular lead cast doing their own thing.
Ballers has never really been about the plot though. It’s about the style, the glamour and the really charismatic cast. Obviously Johnson is good as the lead, but John David Washington, Rob Cordrry, and Omar Miller, among others, do good work again.
It was the right time for this show to end and it won’t go down as any sort of classic, but for five years it has provided low stress entertainment and introduced some interesting talent to the world.
Rating = 3/5
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