A pro basketball comedy from Mike O’Malley, Maverick Carter and… LeBron
The series follows Cam Calloway (Jessie T. Usher), a once-unheralded point guard who has taken the NBA by storm and landed a huge free agent contract in Atlanta. Now he has the money to bring his mother Cassie (Tichina Arnold), sister Mary-Charles, aka M-Chuck (Erica Ash), cousin Reggie (RonReaco Lee) and Uncle Julius (Mike Epps) along for the ride, even as Reggie (who, E-style, acts as his business manager) is trying to keep him from burning through his newfound fortune in a hurry.
To describe the new Starz comedy “Survivor’s Remorse” as “NBA Entourage” sounds at once accurate and dismissive. Accurate because it’s a show about a twentysomething phenom sharing his fame and fortune with his closest friends and family, dismissive because the actual “Entourage” was pretty horrible by the end.
But “Entourage” was entertaining before it became bloated and self-congratulatory and contemptuous of its own fans. And its laziness prevented it from thoroughly exploring all those questions about the intersection of family and celebrity, and of staying true to your roots even as you have the money and opportunity to do things you couldn’t even dream of growing up.
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