Screenshot : Hoops/Netflix

When it comes to animation, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller have earned an incredible amount of my goodwill. Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs expanded a brief children’s book to feature length by getting super weird. In The Lego Movie, they managed to turn an idea that wasn’t really an idea (Lego... are... movie?) into a zany, heartfelt and brilliantly rendered all-ages entertainment. And Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is not only the best Spider-Man movie, but one of the best superhero movies, period. But have they engendered enough goodwill that I’ll watch their new Netflix “adult animated series”?



Hoops (available Aug. 21), created by comedian Ben Hoffman, looks to cash in on the success of Big Mouth with another high school-set series with an incredibly foul-mouthed cast. This time the focus seems to rest more squarely on a sad-sack failure of a teacher (voiced by The New Girl’s Jake Johnson, who also played one of the Spider-Men in Into the Spider-Verse) who sees coaching a basketball team as his ticket out of a dead-end job.



The trailer exhibits some of the Lord/Miller energy that also gave the Jump Street films an edge, but doesn’t exactly instill confidence with a gay panic joke about getting a boner in the shower.

Here’s everything coming to and leaving Netflix this week.

Available August 16

Johnny English

Les Misérables (2012)

Available August 17

Available August 19

Crímenes de familia / The Crimes That Bind

DeMarcus Family Rules — Netflix Original

High Score — Netflix Documentary

Available August 20

Available August 21

Leaving August 18

The Incident

Leaving August 19

Some Kind of Beautiful

Leaving August 20

Bad Rap

Leaving August 21

Just Go With It

Source: Lifehacker.com

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