FURTHER REVIEW: 'Ballers' Was Especially Stupid Last Night - SportsGrid
Sure, this is something we generally accept when watching a television series — “The Walking Dead” is great at making someone do something they would never do in order to create/solve a problem — but episode five of “Ballers” goes above and beyond... First we have Ricky Jerret — who is still seething at his teammates for taking the wheels off his Ferrari — changing his tune in the time it takes to walk the length of a supercar repair shop. His attempt at “being an adult” and “finding common ground” with Alonzo equates to taking the douchey teammate to a strip club. “You had me at ‘strip club,'” Alonzo gleefully tells Jerret, because, ya know, a professional athlete living in Miami needs an invitation to go to a strip club. Without getting into all the details — of which there are few that tell us anything we didn’t already know — Alonzo brings along his entire family to take advantage of Ricky’s conciliatory gesture. The plotline culminates in Alonzo getting pinched by a cop in the parking lot while he’s fucking one of the girls and Ricky saves the day by convincing the cop to let it slide just this once. “I’m a lifelong cheesehead,” the cop excitedly tells Ricky, who played for the Packers before being cut for assaulting someone at a club. “You can have 18,” Alonzo tells Ricky about the jersey number he was so defiant about earlier in the season. Source: www.sportsgrid.com
