Swagger (Episode-6)

There are shows that take a few episodes to find their groove, and then there are shows that feel fully formed from the jump. Swagger fits into the latter camp. Though it’s set in a niche that’ll be foreign to most viewers — elite youth basketball in the Washington metropolitan area — creator Reggie Rock Bythewood constructs a world so richly realized that there’s no doubt in our minds it existed long before we were invited in, and will continue to exist long after we leave. Add vivid characters and sharp storytelling, and it takes only a few episodes for Swagger to establish itself as one of the best new series of the year.Swagger Season 1 Download

Our entry into this universe is Jace Carson (Isaiah Hill), a 14-year-old basketball phenom already being singled out by coaches and scouts as a probable future NBA star. In tried-and-true sports drama fashion, he just needs a mentor who’ll bring out the best in him. He and his mother, Jenna (Shinelle Azoroh, tough and graceful), believe they’ve found one in Ike “Icon” Edwards (O’Shea Jackson Jr., magnificent in the meaty leading role he deserves). If Jace is Swagger‘s rising star, Ike is its anchor, a former teen basketball prodigy who flamed out before he went pro, and now makes it his explicit mission to build not just ballplayers but young men.Swagger takes “show, don’t tell” to heart in a way that too few other series do. Bythewood and his writers often pass over the obvious lines, trusting the actors to communicate through loaded gazes or pursed lips as well as their words. The show has style to spare, but its most striking flourishes exist not to show off for their own sake, or to fulfill some tired expectation of what “prestige TV” is supposed to look like, but to serve the story at hand: The frame might zoom in to horror-movie proportions to convey a character’s fear, or the audio might become muffled as one player becomes laser-focused on another.