Marc Maron, left, and Owen Wilson in a scene from Stick.
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Starring Owen Wilson as a washed-up pro golfer named Pryce Cahill, this new comedy is par for the course on Apple’s streaming service – a kind-hearted show that can be slotted neatly next to Ted Lasso and Shrinking. Snarky put-downs that would register merely as punchlines on HBO instead lead to heart-to-hearts about the importance of being polite to one another despite grief, disappointing dads and the other sadnesses of life. Stick’s first three episodes, now available, follow the divorced Pryce as he starts to dig himself out of depression by mentoring a young golfer named Santi (Peter Dager) who seems destined for greatness. Wilson is at his most shaggily likeable, while Dager – who looks like the love child of Gael García Bernal and Andy Samberg – will hopefully show us more of who his character is as the series progresses. Marc “Joe Rogan of the left” Maron plays Pryce’s former caddy, while Mariana Treviño is a treat as Santi’s mom. New episodes Wednesdays.
A scene from The Mortician.
