And then there’s the fact that they actually get kinda good and make a run for the championship. Joanne loves Sasha so much, but she’s so bad at softball that Joanne keeps asking other players to kick her off the team. Joanne can’t even stand to be in the same bar as the Blue Gays! Straight Zari tries to set up kooky Boris with one of her friends, and it turns into an absolute disaster. There is no shortage of drama in this gay league, obviously! Ann, for example, is dating two different players from the rival Toronto Blue Gays.
Joanne is joined by her extremely un-athletic fiancée, Sasha (Chelsea Muirhead), who works as a high powered lawyer and only joined the team to spend time with her girl Mel (Amanda Cordner), a former pro who can’t talk about why she got kicked out of her league (fuckin’ umps, man) Boris (Karen Knox), who hails from some imaginary country and makes her living as an undocumented worker engaging in corporate espionage, and who is also looking for a wife Zari, the token straight player who keeps apologizing for everything Ann, who lives in Joanne and Sasha’s basement and gets to use the wifi as long as she stays on the team and so many more amazing weirdos! Actually, it’s a slow pitch beer league, which is maybe a specifically Canadian thing, I don’t know, but I love it.
The series follows Joanne (Kirsten Rasmussen), the good natured and wildly competitive lesbian softball coach, and her ragtag team, The Brovaries, as they get their asses handed to them nearly every game of the season in their gay softball league. The only thing I love more than Bad News Bears-y sports stories is LGBTQ humans - so it is, frankly, shocking that I have just found out about Slo Pitch, the mockumentary softball web series that debuted on OUTtvgo in Canada two entire years ago and has just landed on AMC+ and IFC. The 200 Best Lesbian, Bisexual & Queer Movies Of All Time.
LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now.