Even tho they've spent alot of there time turning out hit film after hit film PIXAR has now suddenly started to try there hand at making TV shows. With the only other TV shows that they themselves made being Card Toons , Cars On The Road , Monsters At Work and Dream Productions as while yes they did have a hand in making Buzz Lightyear Of Star Command that wasn't fully made by them and they have just debuted the first two episodes of there first show not to be based off of a feature film and so then join me as I give you my first impressions of the show that really is alot more mature then what it really had any right to be with the show in question being called simply just "Win Or Lose" enjoy.
The plot of these first two episodes is Laurie is a struggling softball player for her dads team and struggles to cope with the pressure when it comes to just hitting the ball and the teams umpire struggles to get over his ex-girlfriend. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty not that bad as both of these first two episodes do have plots that are alot better then what they really had any right to be as they both deal with themes that you don't typically get to see in alot of Disney shows and they do them in ways that are not only unique to each character that the plot of the episode is focusing on but also in really creative and unique ways as well but if push came to shove then the best plot had to be the one in the first episode just because of the fact it felt like that episode actually had a plot and story to tell where as episode twos plot just felt weak with the episode just feeling like that random stuff was happening just for the sake of it and not because of the fact that the episode had a really good story in it's own right to tell as the plot for episode two whilst it was a good plot it just wasn't focused on that much and as such it felt like that the attention of the episode was everywhere except what was meant to be the episodes plot where as it's the opposite that's true for episode ones plot with the plots of both episodes also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in these episodes is Rossie Foss as Laurie , Will Forte as Coach Dan , Chanel Stewart as Kai and Tom Law as Tom. Also starring in these episodes is Izaac Wang as Yuwen , Lil Rel Howery as James , Rosa Salazar as Vanessa , Dorien Watson as Ira , Jo Firestone as Sweaty , Milian Ray as Rochelle , Rhea Seehorn as Carole , Josh Thomson as Frank Brown , Kyliegh Curran as Taylor , Erin Keif as Kerin , Flula Borg as Francis and Santina Muha as Cheryl.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty really good. Which is something that's not really all that knew for a PIXAR project as all of there films and now TV shows even the bad ones have had some really good acting in them and have be really well cast as well and that is something that does seem to be the case for this show and for these episodes as well as all of the characters that are in these first two episodes have been really well cast as even tho the show does sadly continue the trend of using celebrity voices over actual voice actors to play there characters you actually can't tell who is voicing who with all of this shows actors changing there voices just enough so that it feels right for the character and as a result of that is the fact that you stop hearing the actors saying these lines and you start to hear the character saying them with the acting that's in these first two episodes really being helped by the fact that these episodes acting is really being helped by the fact that the scripts for these first two episodes are so good that all these episodes actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance really will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's these first two episodes.
Doing the animation for these first two episodes is of course the legends and the greats that are currently over at PIXAR Animation Studios and Lemon Sky Studios. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in these first two episodes was in all honesty about as good as you'd expect from PIXAR. AS the animation just from these first two episodes alone is more then up there with some of the stuff that they've been putting in there more recent feature films as it's just that good and it's something that also consistent as even in there bad films like Lightyear for example as they always manage to out do themselves with each and every project that they do and they've done it once again as the animation in these first two episodes was simply nothing more then gorgeous to look at and it something that does go to show that you can put in decent feature film quality animation in a TV show if you have the right studio to do it and while the animation in episode one is alot more better then the animation in episode two that doesn't mean that episode two has bad animation in it because it really doesn't it just means that episode one has better animation in it with even the more out there scenes in episode two also looking really good as well as that's just how good the animation really is in both of these episodes.
In what was a unexpected move this show is telling eight interlocking stories with them all seemingly ending up at this big championship game. Which is something that you don't really expect from either Disney or PIXAR for that matter as both companies are more used to tell one completed story over the course of either a film or a TV show and yet here we are getting eight different points of view which is something that does help to make this show stand out alot more then what it already does as it would have been super easy just to have the entire show take place in the lead up to the game but the fact that we are getting eight different stories all of which do indeed connect to one another and all of which do combine during this championship game does say that the makers of this show really did have a unique vision and in an industry where we are getting nothing more then either sequels , prequels or remakes having something new also do something new and do it well as well is something that really does make this show stand out and it's something that this show should get alot of praise as while it rather understandably doesn't end the whole story set up in these two episodes as that's what the final episode is for it does so in a way that not only makes you want to check out the next episode so that you can see more of these characters and this world but also in a way that does feel natural and un-forced as it would have been very easy just to have these stories just stop with rhyme or reason.
Again in what could be seen as being a really shocking move is the fact that both of these episodes are alot more mature then what it had any right to be. As in episode one we see Laurie dealing with the crippling weight of her own expectations of herself and as we see how her own self doubt does overwhelm her and get to her at times which is something that no PIXAR project including either Inside Out films have touched and we see in episode 2 that Frank dumped his girlfriend only for him to realise that he's not over her and that by the end of the episode when he does realise this after spending a good chunk of the episode trying to move on he then finds out that his ex girlfriend is now engaged to be marries thus proving that the main characters don't always get the girl at the end which is again something that other Disney or PIXAR films and shows really havn't had the courage to show us and yet because of the fact that these first two episodes does show us these things and we get to see just how each character deals with them it makes the show and these come across as being alot more mature then what anybody would have thought that they would have been and when you add in the fact that Frank was also starting to open up a bit by the end just by talking to this girl online only for him to still have feeling for his ex does go to show you that sometimes people just can't get over loosing those that they love so easily.
For some strange reason Disney really likes releasing the first two episodes of all of their shows as that's something that they've not only done here but are releasing this shows episodes two a week. Which is something that makes no sense for two reasons the first of which being it makes the very idea of releasing the first two episodes seem less special as there doing quite literally all of the time and in the case of Wizards Beyond Waverly Place they released that shows first TEN episodes on Disney+ whilst only the first one or two were aired on Disney Channel and second of all it means that Disney+ is going to be getting alot less viewing numbers for the show then what they would have gotten if the show released one episode a week as then you can have good word of mouth with people saying just how good that this show is and that can then translate into Disney+ getting more subscribers and while yes releasing the first two episodes is a great way to generate hype that is something that only works if it's done sparring but once you do it all the time and you then release multiple episodes week as despite even starting a month ago Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man has just wrapped up it first ten episode season you then lose any and all hope that you might have of getting new long term subscribers to Disney+ and it's shows like this one that will suffer because of that release strategy as within a month this show will be forgotten about an buried in Disney+ all because of the fact that Disney wanted to get it out there quickly when instead taking your time and releasing your episodes one a week would ultimately help you out longer in the long term of things.
Now then episode one of this show has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty minuets and fifty seconds whilst episode two of this show has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty minuets and twenty two seconds. With both of these first two episodes having some really good running times for them as both both episodes really do have more then enough there interms of plot to really cover there respective running times and while episode one has the better plot oddly enough it's episode two that uses it's running time alot more wisely as while episode one had alot more characters to introduce including the main characters of this episode it's this episode that really does focus in on Frank and let's us the audience really get to know him as a characters where as episode one despite telling the better story with the heavier theme doesn't really give us the chance to really get to know Laurie as a main character with both of the episodes spending alot of time in setting up this world and letting us now how it works as this shows world is basically just our world but animated however despite all of that praise it's episode that comes out the better episode because of the fact that it's central theme of expectation was handled alot more better then the theme of episode two was this despite the fact that episodes twos theme of love and what it means to lose someone love was handled really well in it's own right as well but I really will admit that both of these episode have some really good pacing to them tho.
So now then as this is a comedy show that really means that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in these first two episodes and well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in these first two episodes was in al honesty really good. With both of these episodes having some genuinely laugh out loud moments in them be it from Sweaty just being an annoying person to Laurie or Venessa describing how she used her car horn for a really long time on the way to her girls school there are alot of really funny moments in both of these episodes that bog kids and adults will enjoy with this show being geared at more towards a family audience and even with that in mind the jokes that are in both of these episodes don't feel that adult as all they are alot of the time are the characters doing things that we as people do in our everyday lives only now it's kicked up to eleven because of the fact that it's animated and that is something that does make alot of the scenes in these first two episodes really funny and while episode two does have some really funny jokes in it like Frank just straight up acting like an umpire at his job as a school teacher is a funny idea but the funniest episode is easily episode one because of the fact that Sweaty is just a funny character in that episode in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall this is a show that is going to fly under the radar despite the fact that it's a really good show and the reason that it's going to fly under the radar is the fact Disney didn't really promote the show in the lea up to it's release but given just how good that these first two episodes were maybe the show will get some love from the fans as this really is just that good of a show thus far in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i.ve talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things thar are in these first two episodes in this very post and since this is only my first impressions I won't be giving this show a rating however if this post does decently well and if you guys want me to check out another episode then I will do it and that post would then be a review of that episode and that episode only and not a review of the show as a whole.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very post well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this post from the official Disney fandom wiki page , the official PIXAR fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from these very episodes that I used in this very post being the really great the official PIXAR fandom wiki page really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from these very episodes with alot of them being better quality then what'd think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on the official PIXAR fandom wiki page are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.