The "Winning Time" series tells the Lakers to better bite into America

• The series 

  Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty

   is available in H + 24 every Monday on OCS, the first season will have 10 episodes.

• With Adam McKay (

  Vice

  ,

  Don't Look Up

  ) directing the pilot, the series has fun recreating and then blasting 1980s imagery.

• John C. Reilly, as entrepreneur and Lakers boss Jerry Buss, leads an impressive and sometimes unrecognizable cast.

Perhaps more than that of any country, the history of the United States has also been written in sport, on the global and local scales, and cinema and television have seized on it as from

,

,

,

the

series or the

and

on Michael Jordan.

Airing H+24 every Monday on OCS, the new HBO series,

, recounts the beginning of the Lakers' golden age, also known as the "Showtime" era, with the takeover of the Californian franchise by entrepreneur Jerry Buss, the recruitment of a certain Magic Johnson, and the development basketball as true mass entertainment, on and off the court.

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Between documentary and comedy

If the series is a fiction, according to the testimony and the book of Jeff Pearlman, it takes on the air of a documentary with a production that perfectly recreates the 1980s, to the point that it is sometimes difficult to make the distinction with archival footage.

Except, of course, when the personalities and characters, headed by Jerry Buss played by John C. Reilly, break the fourth wall and speak directly to viewers.

We find at work the iconoclasm of the American director Adam McKay, which has almost become his trademark since the films

,

and recently

.

A top toupee casting

With him behind the pilot's camera, and for example Jonah Hill on the second episode,

regularly pours into comedy, the

, well helped by its top toupee cast (literally): John C. Reilly therefore, but also Jason Clarke, Adrien Brody, Jason Segel for the best known and sometimes unrecognizable, as well as newcomers Quincy Isaiah and Solomon Hughes, impeccable in Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

But even this multi-voice, multi-talented show doesn't always make it easy to digest the flood of information that assails the viewer, because creators and screenwriters Max Borenstein and Jim Hecht aren't Aaron Sorkin on

or

.

For the record, and the bad news, John C. Reilly was not Adam McKay's first choice to play Jerry Buss.

Michael Shannon was first cast, before dropping out of the role as he was uncomfortable with the fourth wall.

Will Ferrell then wanted the role at all costs, especially since he and Adam McKay have already collaborated and even had a production company together.

But the director preferred John C. Reilly, Will Ferrell's best friend, without telling the latter, thus ending their personal and professional friendship, and among the best US comedies: 

and its sequel,

and the "well" named

.

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