Owen Wilson's 'Stick' Rides the 'Ted Lasso' Formula

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I am a sports fan, but I do not care for golf — the least interesting of the major televised sports. But good God, man: golf is a great movie sport. Not just Happy Gilmore or Caddyshack , but Tin Cup , which might be my favorite sports movie of all time. It’s got all the classic sports movie tropes, sure, but there’s also a kind of meditative wisdom baked in.

Apple TV+’s Stick is as formulaic as these things come, but there’s a reason formulas work, and if there’s any sports-movie formula built to sustain the long haul of a television series, it’s golf. Add a terrific cast to that, and you’ve got something in Stick worth watching.

Owen Wilson — who, oddly enough, found his groove again i

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