(courtesy IMP Awards)
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Win or Lose follows a co-ed middle school softball team called the Pickles in the week leading up to their big championship game. Each 20-minute episode takes the same events from one different member of the Pickles and their perspective as the game approaches, such as players, their parents, and the umpire, with two stories being showcased in particular. Win or Lose is a new series created & made by Pixar Animation Studios for Disney+. The series is created & written & showrun by filmmakers Carrie Hobson (story artist on Toy Story 4) and Michael Yates (The Legend of the Flying Tomato short film). Produced by David Lally (of Pixar’s SparkShots series). With music composed by Ramin Djawadi. Executive produced by Pete Docter, Andrew Stanton, Lindsey Collins, Carrie Hobson, Michael Yates, & David Lally. (courtesy First Showing)
If there’s one thing Pixar has always done well right from the start, and let’s face it, they have done LOTS of things right, it’s give its characters such 3D realness that you feel as if you know them.
This commitment to fulsome characterisation has given its imaginative storylines real vivacity and moving impact, and it looks like they are bringing it to full effect on their upcoming eight-episode streaming series.
In fact, so character-rich is the series that Alex Billington of First Showing notes that:
The fascinating Inside Out-inspired series reveals what it actually feels like to be in the shoes of each of the unique characters—the insecure kids, their helicopter parents, even a lovesick umpire—with incredibly funny, very emotional and uniquely animated perspectives.
It looks like it’s going to get right into our hearts and minds and there’s a lot to look forward to when Win or Lose premieres on Disney+ on 19 February.