Apple TV+’s new sports show Stick feels good. It feels good so, so hard, with effort and with focus. Stick ’s good feeling is not just superficial, either. It lives on a structural, aesthetic, performative, and almost molecular level. It is a show about golf and the incredible good feeling that comes with bombing that ball across the county line or tapping it perfectly across the green. Its colors are saturated and bright, and it feels good to stare at those immaculate golf shirts against verdant grass. It stars Owen Wilson, an actor whose screen presence screams “Aren’t we all feeling good? I sure am,” even when the character he’s playing is clearly lying to himself. It is a sports show. Victory will be wrenched from the jaws of defeat. Games will be won and lost, but what will really

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