Pitch

Ginny Baker (Kylie Bunbury) is the first female MLB player and the new pitcher for the San Diego Padres. Mike Lawson (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) is the veteran catcher on the last leg of his celebrated career. Oscar Arguella (Mark Consuelos) is the GM. Outfielder Blip Sanders (Mo McRae) and his wife Evelyn (Meagan Holder) are Ginny's friends. Al Luongo (Dan Lauria) is the gruff, old-fashion manager. Ginny's father is dead and her brother is desperate to cash in on her fame. Amelia Slater (Ali Larter) quits her job to be solely her manager with assistant Eliot (Tim Jo).

This could have been a bad gimmicky TV show. The use of real MLB teams helps a lot but it's Bunbury that makes this show works. She has great sincerity and terrific charms. Gosselaar is now a veteran of TV acting and uses it to deliver a veteran performance. This is a solid show although it only lasted one season with ten episodes.

Perfect Pitch! Get it!

Ideal show for the #MeToo era. Too bad more people didn't watch. I really enjoyed it.

Well, the ...alien queen from "Under the Dome" is back in another TV series destined to flop.

With a premise which otherwise might have been interesting (a woman trying to succeed in a sport ruled by men) this show starts terrible, achieving the exact opposite its producers would hope for.

From the very beginning the writers are trying to create an atmosphere of success and awe about their characters and all they succeeding is to make them unlikeable caricatures and to sound ridiculous.

Ginny Baker is "the most important woman in the world", "the whole world is talking about her", she is "Hillary Clinton with sex appeal" and a "Kardashian with a skill set". (Honestly who writes these lines??)

Her agent (played by Ali Larter) is to be hated instantly too. She passed an invitation to ...lake Como from George Clooney and she is the absolute boss of anyone she meets.

It is obvious where this is going, and it doesn't look pretty. I'm seeing some critics praise it, but the consensus among the viewers is negative, and the ratings are low.

The only thing that made me smile a little was the ...appearance of Mark-Paul Gosselaar. Forget the attractive blond-ish lawyer from Franklin and Bash. Here is ...fat and with a ridiculous beard.

Overall: Sometimes writers are trying to follow a recipe, to build larger than life characters, to move the audience with superficial feelings and to lure the viewers into a world of what they think is magic. If they don't actually feel it themselves or trying too hard to create a hype, the result is atrocious and it will blow out in their faces.

"Pitch" is one of these cases.

UPDATE: Despite a ...93% (!!!) positive reviews from critics. This crap is now canceled! Told you from Day 1.

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I like this show. I think it has great potential, a strong cast and an excellent premise. It's about time we start see TV shows featuring female athletes. I actually teared up in the pilot seeing the "fans" react to Ginny arriving at the stadium. This show is inspiring. It also has great life lessons in it, about not admitting defeat and finding your own path to pursue your dreams. No two journeys will be the same and I love that this show is highlighting that. I'm excited to see where this show goes. It has great potential to really reshape how we think about professional sports and demonstrate a different society. I wish the cast and crew all the best and hope they take this opportunity to really make a mark with this show.

For a television series to work you need to have list of characters you can get to enjoy watching. Not all have to do everything in every scene to make you go wow or be funny. The list of actors and actresses in the show have a good chemistry on screen, the script is set at a great pace with nice touches of emotion and twists. You want to believe in the end that all will come out for whoever you are most convinced by and the way the script has the characters interacting so far is a pleasure to see. This a show about hope and if you work hard enough then your aspirations can come true. The world surrounds itself with negativity far too much and we as viewers are looking for flaws rather than celebrating a great story line, with plot twists and the occasional smile along the way. Pitch has so far managed this and I have great hopes that it will to the end. In the four episodes watched, never has a scene dragged on too long or the dialogue for the next scene been too fast paced to make it confusing. A TV show is there to entertain and this one does. Give it a go.