HBO has confirmed that Sunday’s Season 2 finale is the last episode of the basketball series about the Los Angeles Lakers dynasty.
After a seven-game duel between the Lakers and the Celtics, Larry Bird and his Boston ballers sink a dagger into their West Coast rivals, claiming victory as the NBA champions of 1984. It’s an ugly defeat for Los Angeles, who are immediately greeted with a stampede of Celtics fans rushing the floor before they can sulk off the court.
screened before the season began. Lakers owner Jerry Buss and his daughter Jeanie are seen taking a seat center-court at the Forum. The pair crack open a bottle of whiskey as Dr. Buss assures his heir, “You know it’s going to be alright, kid. All of it. And you know how I know? Because we fucking own this.”
The disparity between the two characters’ endings — Buss laughing up a storm on the throne of his empire, Johnson dead-eyed and assuming a near-fetal position on enemy ground — caps the series with an inexplicable betrayal of its alleged interests, sending viewers off to swish around a saccharine aftertaste.
Certainly “Winning Time” isn’t the first TV show to drop a premature conclusion on viewers. But with plenty more well-documented match-ups on the horizon, the ending makes for a uniquely curt send-off to viewers who know their basketball history. In a July interview with“Every writer everywhere, but especially in Hollywood, writes in hope. Exactly how we ultimately wrap it up, that’s going to be up to the powers that be,” Borenstein said.
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