Episode 42: 42, Starring Chadwick Boseman as Jackie Robinson

Description: Black History Month continues, and numerical kismet isn’t the only thing we love this week: We LOVE 42, the 2013 biopic about Jackie Robinson’s first year as the first Black Major League Baseball player. The late, great Chadwick Boseman is, of course, brilliant, but so is Harrison Ford as sportsball manager Branch Rickey, a man committed to desegregating MLB. Which, spoiler alert, is what happens as Jackie Robinson joins the Brooklyn Dodgers and changes the game forever.

There are roadblocks, mainly a number of white men whose use of the n-word is, shall we say, Quentin Tarantino film-level liberal in this movie. We also discover Chris Meloni is too sexy for the managerial work of pro baseball, Alan Tudyk sure can let the evil fly when he feels like it, and Hamish Linklater is a dreamboat as the legendary ballplayer and product-of-prolific-parents Ralph Branca. 

And sad warning: We know nothing about baseball. 

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Spoiler Warning: We spoil everything. And we enjoy it.

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