Thank God, Timothy Olyphant showed up to recover this in disorderly sporting program on the right track

Warning: to come and come for Stick Season 1, episode 8.

Stick Episode 8, “Clark The Mark”, presents the new life line of Apple TV + Golf’s comedy in the character of Timothy Olyphant, Clark Ross. Clark played on the PGA Tour with Pryce Cahill of Owen Wilson at the time and said something unfinished about the son of Pryce, Jett, who sparked a viral explosion fueled by Rage which ended the career of Pryce.

In the flesh, Clark Ross is difficult to hate. Beautiful, charming and in the form of a shelf, Ross is described as one of those special guys who has everything and is loved by everyone, with the exception of our principal Stick The actors, who try to make him shake up in his own steakhouse. Despite certain complications that are typical of it Stick Crew, the plan of Pryce ends up paying off at the end of what becomes Stick The most pleasant episode so far.

Timothy Olyphant shines like a sympathetic antagonist in episode 8 of the stick

Its dynamic with Wilson should have been a main characteristic of the show

Olyphant Stick The character who does not show up before the eighth episode of a first season in 10 games perfectly sums up the type of show Stick has become. It has an excess of attractive ingredients which should theoretically make a hit show, but its poor organization and execution retain him from grandeur.

Clark appeared only in a brief television advertisement before finally staying in episode 8. The dynamics between Clark and Pryce should have been Stick main scenario. The two are old rivals with a deep story and a mutual love of golf, which would have naturally made the series more focused on sports and convincing.

In addition, Clark and Pryce are involuntarily hilarious together in episode 8Adding a humor well necessary for a show that was marketed as a comedy. If the series had forced them to meet from the first episode, perhaps with the angle that they were fighting on Santi’s training to go pro, then Stick It would have hung me from the start.

When Clark and Pryce are both on the screen, it seems nothing else that happens in the series is important. It is easy to forget that the protagonist of the series is supposed to be Santi during these moments, and that makes me wish that Stick was really the show of Pryce.

I understand the redemption arc by proxy of Pryce through Santi, but I think that a better version of Stick would have seen him win the exemption from the sponsor for the PGA tournament rather than for the child. Not only is Pryce much easier to invest than Santi, but also His return trip to the golf game after losing his young son is so much more convincing that Santi overcome his dad problems.

Hopefully Olyphant will continue to be at the center of the last two episodes of Stick Season 1. There is still much more to explore on its background frame with Pryce, and All signs indicate that it is the equivalent of the Apple TV program HAPPY Gilmore’s Shooter McGivin – An egocentric golf elitist who could use an outsider lesson.

Stick’s inconsistency continues to be the most frustrating part of the show

The show mixes too many tones and genres to establish a winning identity

If Stick Had a dashboard, he would have pulled one or two under the peer in his first three holes (episodes), Triple Bogey was the fourth, and perhaps even back to the height of his seventh. After episode 8, which looked like a farmer putt at the end of the third round, Stick seems to go up the ranking before its last two episodes, positioning itself well for a solid recovery finish.

That said, it is difficult to neglect how incoherent the show was throughout its first season, not only in tone and gender, but also in quality. A large part of the real drama, mainly concerning The tragic background of Pryce and his shot on revenge against Clark, were avoided and crushed by the melodrama mainly from flat characters like Santi, Zero and Elena.

Stick Episode 8 is a great improvement compared to previous episodes, but it is not without defects either. I had trouble believing that Clark would not recognize the mittens, the Caddie de Pryce, earlier. I am also I’m not sure that Santi is upset and zero blowing the cover of everyone being part of the master plan. Did Pry plan that the exhibition of their Hustle would lead to a challenge closest to the spindle between him and Clark? How could he have predicted this? Wouldn’t that have been a safer bet for Pryce to flow a third putt for the sponsorship of Santi?

Golf logic in Stick Episode 8 works fairly well for the end of the show. Pryce traversing the ball on the pond with an archaic 3 iron was actually an excellent touch, although an iron or a much more common hybrid had the same effect. I want Santi to stop calling the PGA Tour “The Show”, “ A sporting term which generally refers to the major baseball league, not professional golf.

Eventually, Stick Starts to become more of the golf comedy show that he marketed as with his eighth episode, preparing for an unexpected final return.

Stick Season 1, episode 8

7/ 10

Release date

June 4, 2025

Network

Apple TV +

Advantages and disadvantages

• Clark Ross of Timothy Olyphant is the sympathetic antagonist stick necessary for episode 1
• Pryce of Owen Wilson takes the spotlight and finally bends her golf skills in a clutch moment

• The dynamics of Pryce & Clark should have been the main conflict in the whole series
• The bustle on Clark is great until it becomes too complicated