Dwayne Johnson’s TV sequence is rising up the Netflix charts

The hierachy of energy within the Netflix charts has shifted, as Ballers, Dwayne Johnson‘s five-season TV sequence, is steeply rising up the streamer’s most-watched charts.

The comedy sequence, which aired on HBO between 2015 and 2019, adopted Spencer Strasmore (Johnson), a former NFL participant who decides to make use of his life expertise to turn into a monetary supervisor for different NFL gamers.

Whereas the sports activities drama sequence was created by Steven Levinson, Johnson was additionally on board as an government producer. Starring alongside Johnson was Rob Corddry, John David Washington, Omar Miller, Donovan W. Carter, Troy Garity, London Brown, and Jazmyn Simon. And now, due to the streaming service, Ballers is getting a brand new lease of life.

Total, the feel-good present has a 71% score on Rotten Tomatoes, with season 1 performing the strongest critically with an 81% aggregated score.

Reviewers have been particularly complimentary of Johnson, with NPR’s Eric Deggans noting that “The Rock could have missed his calling as a tv star with the talent to maintain a personality compelling week after week.” Equally, The Guardian‘s Dan Quade praised Johnson’s “simple charisma” whereas The Wrap‘s Diane Gordon says the actor “does a strong job of main the ensemble.”

A number of critics additionally dubbed Ballers as sport’s reply to Entourage: one other considered one of Levinson’s reveals that chronicled the rise of a bunch of up-and-coming actors as they try to break into the world of A-Listers.

The sequence just lately joined Netflix after being acquired from its earlier community, and given it’s already risen to 3rd place within the streamer’s prime most-watched TV sequence chart for the week, we expect that Baller will like its new residence.

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