{"id":484010,"date":"2022-08-13T01:23:12","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T22:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-hulus-legacy-review-docuseries-about-the-showtime-era-lakers\/"},"modified":"2022-08-13T01:23:12","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T22:23:12","slug":"watch-hulus-legacy-review-docuseries-about-the-showtime-era-lakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-hulus-legacy-review-docuseries-about-the-showtime-era-lakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Hulu&#8217;s &#8216;Legacy&#8217; Review: Docuseries About the Showtime-Era Lakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a413248c3d8f\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a413248c3d8f\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-hulus-legacy-review-docuseries-about-the-showtime-era-lakers\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Hulus_%E2%80%98Legacy_Review_Docuseries_About_the_Showtime-Era_Lakers%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online Hulu&#8217;s &#8216;Legacy&#8217; Review: Docuseries About the Showtime-Era Lakers&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-hulus-legacy-review-docuseries-about-the-showtime-era-lakers\/#%E2%80%9CHulus_%E2%80%98Legacy_Review_Docuseries_About_the_Showtime-Era_Lakers%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Hulu&#8217;s &#8216;Legacy&#8217; Review: Docuseries About the Showtime-Era Lakers&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Hulus_%E2%80%98Legacy_Review_Docuseries_About_the_Showtime-Era_Lakers%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online Hulu&#8217;s &#8216;Legacy&#8217; Review: Docuseries About the Showtime-Era Lakers&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CHulus_%E2%80%98Legacy_Review_Docuseries_About_the_Showtime-Era_Lakers%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Hulu&#8217;s &#8216;Legacy&#8217; Review: Docuseries About the Showtime-Era Lakers&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        In entertainment, as in sports, it\u2019s all about timing.<\/p>\n<p>Which makes \u201cLegacy: The True Story of the LA Lakers\u201d a victim of the TV industry\u2019s current interest in its subject matter. (Perhaps that can be blamed on the \u201980s Lakers being the most recognizable, and most accessible, team to build a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> around in the wake of the smash success of the 2020 Michael Jordan docuseries \u201cThe Last Dance.\u201d) Jeanie Buss, the CEO of the NBA\u2019s Lakers, has executive-produced Hulu\u2019s documentary tribute to the team that was already, this year, at the center of Apple TV+\u2019s doc \u201cThey Call Me Magic,\u201d about star Magic Johnson, and HBO\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a>ed \u201cWinning Time,\u201d about her late father Jerry Buss\u2019 stewardship of the team.<\/p>\n<p>This luxuriously slow-paced 10-part series begins in the \u201cShowtime\u201d era \u2014 during which Buss, who purchased the Lakers, along with their then-home court the Forum, in 1979 \u2014 leveraged his team\u2019s location and his flair for drama to forge a more purely entertaining kind of sports. It\u2019s a story that has certain noteworthy elements and that certainly has memorable personalities; Johnson is a welcome on-camera presence here. But director Antoine Fuqua, gifted though he is, simply cannot get around the fact that elements of this story are ones we have by now seen before, either in a more tightly focused way, as in the Johnson documentary, or with (for better or worse) more verve, as on \u201cWinning Time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And even if other takes on this story didn\u2019t exist, one wonders just how novel the Showtime story really is. The fact of multiple Lakers executives among the producers means there\u2019s inevitably going to be a bit of puffery here, but the fact of the Showtime era bringing entertainment value to sports can sometimes seem fairly overstated. (To be only slightly reductive, how novel, really, was Buss\u2019 idea that sports should be fun?) And this documentary series exhaustively hits every narrative beat to have happened to the Buss family without pushing for the deeper insight: The fact of Jeanie having been passed over in favor of her brother to lead the family\u2019s WNBA venture is mentioned as a challenge, but moved past with a bit more decorum than one might expect from a documentary this comprehensive.<\/p>\n<p>None of which is to say that \u201cLegacy\u201d won\u2019t have something in it for the devotee. But viewers should expect something that exists in the place between studious neutrality and an outright promotional film. The documentary grows in interest near the series\u2019 midpoint, as Buss\u2019 team, having lost its Showtime gloss after its dominance fell away, got scrappier; Shaquille O\u2019Neal and Kobe Bryant enter the frame as nascent superstars worth watching. But it takes enough time to get there that viewers might just settle for what they\u2019ve already seen \u2014 or wait until the season launches this fall, to see hoops action untouched by the softening glow of nostalgia.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cLegacy: The True Story of the LA Lakers\u201d will premiere Monday, August 15 with two episodes on Hulu, with new episodes streaming weekly.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n  !function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    if (f.fbq) return;\n    n = f.fbq = function() {\n      n.callMethod ?\n          n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n    };\n    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n    n.push = n;\n    n.loaded = !0;\n    n.version = '2.0';\n    n.queue = [];\n    t = b.createElement(e);\n    t.async = !0;\n    t.src = v;\n    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n  }(window, document, 'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '586935388485447');\n  fbq('init', '315552255725686');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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