The CW The NFL season may be over but All American is gearing up for a return that will fully satisfy those football cravings. The CW series, which premiered in 2018, centers on Spencer James (Daniel Ezra), a rising high school football player at South Crenshaw High who gets recruited by Beverly Hills coach Billy Baker (Taye Diggs). Forced to move in with Billy and his family to protect his transfer permit, the show follows Spencer as he struggles to find his footing while balancing football,
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All American Season 3 Review: The CW s Football Drama Still Scores, But MVP Daniel Ezra Deserves More
Spencer needs to evolve along with his co-stars Candice Frederick
At the beginning of
All American, the CW drama following a Black teen (Daniel Ezra) struggling to reconcile his Compton identity with his promising new life as a football star living in Beverly Hills, it explored questions of Blackness, colorism, and privilege through a mostly singular coming-of-age story. Now, as that narrative continues to evolve in
All American Season 3, we see some of those same themes play out with varying degrees of success, and a central character grappling with a seemingly self-appointed responsibility to be everything to everyone.