If you’re sensitive about deviant sex, for instance — or even normal sex, if it’s had in restaurant restrooms — you might want to give the show a pass. If drug use to the point of catatonia seems inappropriate as a springboard for humor, you probably shouldn’t tune in. If emotional bullying, sexual blackmail and jokes about developmentally challenged puppies offend you — if you have a shred of human decency — "The League” isn’t for you.
A kind of sociopathic "Sex and the City” for men that substitutes football for shoes and dope for cosmos, "The League” is about a group of arrested-development buddies (one is actually a woman, but she slings locker-room raunch with the best of them) whose fantasy-football league is an extension of their ethically stunted, emotionally retarded, sexually starved lives.
League champ Pete (Mark Duplass, "The Puffy Chair”) is ruthless and arrogant: "It’s not just that you lose — it’s that you try so hard and you still lose,” he mocks his putative friends. Perennial runner-up Kevin (Stephen Rannazzisi, "Samantha Who?”) is so henpecked he conducts league business while sitting on the toilet, the only place he can hide from his wife.
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