If You Love Comedy That Moves The World Forward, You Should Really Watch Brockmire

I have a baker’s dozen words to justify why you should spend sixteen hours of your valuable time, meted out in thirty-minute increments, to watch thirty-two episodes of the Funny or Die comedy that IMDB describes as being about:

A famous major league baseball announcer who suffers an embarrassing and very public meltdown live on the air after discovering his beloved wife’s serial infidelity decides to reclaim his career and love life in a small town a decade later.

Here are those words, in no order of importance: Redemption | Glory | Drugs| Baseball | Sex | Jacket | Love | Friendship| Places | Alcohol | Joy | Technology | Shadow. I will do this without spoiling anything major; the task is to sell you on watching and enjoying this show.

Redemption

This is a story with a happy ending, and I am not sorry to spoil this for you. I want you to know that there is a place of light and joy at the end of this journey. You will walk through some of the darkest darkness, but it will be both hilarious and worth it.

Glory

Have you ever come across someone who is doing what fate intended for them to be doing? Jim Brockmire in front of a microphone is this, and it is most certainly NOT…