Episode Reviews

This is the third installment of Adam McKay’s series on ill-fated basketball careers and lives as they intersected with Reganism and the 1980s. I’m not sure there is likely to be a better chapter in the 8 episode run than this one about Len Bias. It’s tragic to see anyone’s life cut short - especially when that person seems to have had a legitimate shot at giving Michael Jordan a run for his money. Worse still is to see how such a tragedy catalyzed a national panic that wreaked havoc in communities with people who look just like the young man at the heart of the story.