7.4
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
The League (2009)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Viewer Rating
Rating: 7.4
Overview
The League is an American sitcom and semi-improvised comedy about a about a fantasy football league and its members and their everyday lives.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Bias Dimensions
Political: Strong Left
Diversity: Low
LGBTQ: Negative
Trans: Negative
Judaism: Negative
Overview
The League is an American sitcom and semi-improvised comedy about a about a fantasy football league and its members and their everyday lives.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Center
Primary
The film explicitly documents and champions the National Urban League's progressive efforts to combat systemic racial discrimination and achieve social and economic justice for Black Americans through organized advocacy and community building, aligning with a clearly left-leaning perspective.
The series features a predominantly white main cast, with characters original to the show rather than being recast from established roles. Its narrative focuses on comedic situations within a fantasy football league and personal relationships, without explicitly critiquing traditional identities or centering on diversity, equity, and inclusion themes.
Secondary
The show frequently uses LGBTQ+ identity and themes as a source of crude humor and mockery, often relying on stereotypes and the discomfort of its straight main characters. There is little to no affirming or complex portrayal, resulting in a net negative impact on representation.
The League includes transsexual characters, notably in an episode where a character's trans identity is used as a source of problematic humor. The portrayal relies on the main cast's discomfort and mockery, reinforcing negative stereotypes without offering counterbalancing positive elements or critique.
The show frequently uses Jewish stereotypes, particularly through the character of Ruxin, for comedic effect. While the humor is often directed at Ruxin's personal flaws, these are often intertwined with and reinforce common negative stereotypes (e.g., cheapness, neuroticism, overbearing mothers). The narrative does not offer a significant counterbalancing positive portrayal or clearly condemn the bigotry inherent in these stereotypes, instead leveraging them for laughs.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The League is an original comedy series with characters created specifically for the show. There are no pre-existing source materials, historical figures, or prior adaptations from which characters' genders could have been swapped.
The League is an original comedy series that premiered in 2009. It does not adapt pre-existing source material or depict historical figures, meaning no characters had an established race prior to the show's creation.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
8.2
7.4
Critic Ratings
8.1
5.8
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