Winning Time — Showmax

Executive producer Adam McKay (The Big Short, Vice, Don’t Look Up) has his genre-mashing fingerprints all over this hugely enjoyable high-energy sports drama. It‘’s an often blackly comic retelling of the true story of Dr Jerry Buss, the former chemist turned entrepreneur who bought the LA Lakers basketball team and — with a lot of imagination and plenty of help from rookie sensation Earvin Magic Johnson — turned them into the legendary “Showtime” Lakers of the 1980s. ..