# A League of Their Own (2022)

> In 1943 Chicago, Carson Shaw chases a place in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League and finds a community of women fighting for their own game.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/89367

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 8
- Episode runtime: 54 min
- Status: Canceled
- Genres: comedy, drama
- Created by: Abbi Jacobson, Will Graham
- Network: Prime Video
- Cast: Abbi Jacobson, Chanté Adams, D'Arcy Carden, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Kelly McCormack, Roberta Colindrez, Melanie Field, Priscilla Delgado
- TMDB rating: 7.6/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8226360/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: mild
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: none
- Tone: whimsical, comforting, bold, warm, earnest

## What critics say

Audience reception is modestly positive, with viewers praising the cast and the warm, inclusive take on the 1940s women's baseball league while a few object to its modern framing.

## Synopsis

A League of Their Own (2022) is a United States period sports comedy-drama series created by Abbi Jacobson and Will Graham for Prime Video. Abbi Jacobson stars as Carson Shaw, a woman who travels to Chicago in 1943 to try out for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, and Chanté Adams plays Max Chapman, a Rockford local turned away at the tryouts. D'Arcy Carden appears as Greta Gill and Gbemisola Ikumelo as Clance Morgan, Carson's best friend, whose loyalty anchors Carson's push to forge a path of her own. The engine of the show is simple and concrete: women who want to play professional baseball must earn spots, navigate rival teammates, and push past the prejudice of a wartime America that has little room for them. Each episode moves through tryouts, practices, road trips and dressing-room friction, building a single season of connections that open up the characters' worlds. Shaped as an eight-episode run of one continuing story, the series was canceled after its first season, so its arc ends on an open thread. Its setting is a wartime United States of ballparks, boarding houses and sidelined dreams, rendered with a bright, whimsical and comforting warmth tempered by the sharp edges of racism and queer longing. Fans of the 1992 film A League of Their Own, Friday Night Lights and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel will find resonance in its blend of sports, period texture and female solidarity.

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