Pitch Review: Unstoppable Forces and Immovable Objects (Season 1 Episode 8)

 

As much as I want to love Pitch, it’s becoming hit or miss for me at this point.

I wondered from the pilot episode if the show could really continue to move forward with its premise, and it has, but it’s almost as though it’s moving forward too quickly.

There is so much that can be explored, and on Pitch Season 1 Episode 8, we scratch a few more surfaces. We find out more about Ginny’s brother, which is heartbreaking because he’s not the brother she needs right now.

At least we do finally find out why he hasn’t been around.

Meanwhile, poor Mike is essentially no longer welcome on his own team, not because he isn’t talented, but because his body is breaking down.

Reminder: Mike Lawson is 36.

You have to feel some sympathy for this guy, especially since it’s clear that this team is pretty much all he has.

At the center of all of it should be Ginny, but somehow it’s more like things are just happening around her. While I think it makes sense to flesh out all of the other characters as a way to drive the story forward, the lack of focus on her is disappointing.

Mike finally expressing some resentment about the way everything has been about her lately is a scene that could have been so much more significant.

That’s a big part of her struggle — this idea that she just wants to play and be a member of the team like anyone else, but she’s thrust into stardom no matter what. I want to see her deal with that more, and I want to see her deal with it when someone like Mike expresses frustration.

It’s realistic, obviously, that one of her teammates has developed a crush on her. And it’s probably about time that we saw that sort of conflict. But my concern is in the look Mike gives Ginny at the end of this episode (and in the trailer — see below).

I know there are many viewers who want to see a romantic relationship form between those two, but I’m not one of them.

I was so excited to see their friendship form and to watch Mike continue to be her mentor. And if there was going to be romance between them, it would likely work better as a much slower burn. I’m talking seasons down the road here, if we’re able to get them.

I was also hoping Ginny would continue to hold firm on avoiding romantic relationships with teammates.

Granted, it looks like Mike may no longer actually be her teammate.

He makes the decision at the end of the episode to go to Chicago. He doesn’t have to, but I think he feels that’s what’s best for his team, and maybe it has something to do with Ginny too.

Either way, I don’t think it’s what he wants, but his hand is being forced.

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Pitch airs Thursdays at 9/8c on Fox.

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