A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN (2022-)

Bring me home, Shaw!

REUNITED AND IT FEELS SO GO—OD 🥳

it’s all about the dramatic parallel between Carson and Greta’s first kiss, where Carson goes back for more and Greta decides it’s enough and pushes her away, and their last kiss, where Greta tries to keep kissing her till the very end and takes one more kiss

You opened me up again, Carson.

You showed me colors you know i can't see with anyone else You taught me a secret language i can't speak with anyone else.

shoutout to abbi jacobson for personally casting d’arcy carden as her love interest what a genius baller move

Greta & Carson in A League of Their Own (2022)

What do you call love? ❤️‍🔥

something i liked a lot about a league of their own is how true to the time period it stayed? it wasn’t some feel good about how “if history was different…” it SHOWED history in its truth both positively and negatively.

segregation and racism was rampant, and they never pull some “oh but max can be on the peaches for this weird and historically inaccurate reason,” we instead see her happiness and community within the black community and friendships with specific white characters in which she forces them to acknowledge that they didn’t help her but doesn’t hold them to the standards of today

we don’t get a “homophobia doesn’t exist actually” or a “random nice police officer for some reason lets them all go,” but we do get to see the underground bar and how it provided a safe haven alongside bert’s private parties

jess was fined for wearing pants and that rule was never changed throughout the whole show, but being given back the fines afterwards was a period consistent way of showing how someone might have shown support and solidarity then

as much as colorblind rewriting of history both for racism and homophobia is a nice idea, it’s also so important to show how the actual marginalized communities found strength and togetherness in the time that they had to, and did, live in.

GRETSON

"You changed my whole life."

"You opened me up again, Carson."

Greta Gill and Carson Shaw in A League Of Their Own (2022 - )

the unbelievably high amount of emotions that were crammed into that look Carson and Greta exchange after their first kiss

you have Greta’s satisfaction at having been proven right when she correctly guessed Carson’s orientation, the teasing in her eyes, a lot of anticipation of Carson’s reaction now, but also you can tell that she’s holding back a lot, she gave a brief kiss that shattered Carson’s life and now she’s waiting for her to make the next move and she’s putting it all in her hands, and her smile is also addressed directly at Carson, letting her know that this is all okay, that she’s in safe hands, that she’s allowed to want this, that she can have it if only she gives it a chance. and the joy. she looks so, so happy.

meanwhile poor baby girl Carson is going through it, discovering that there’s a reason she’s only just pinpointed why she’s always felt like she didn’t belong, why she’s always felt like her life was a lie, why she ran away from her husband for no reason, that there’s a clear explanation why she felt so drawn to this woman she’d just met and trusted her so instantly, this entire new world is opening to her and it’s so overwhelming. in 1943 she has zero notion of what homosexuality means and suddenly everything clicks into place when that door opens to her all at once.

it’s an extremely intense moment that they executed perfectly and it works so, so well in just a few seconds’ time

I hate talking in front of people, and Mr. Baker Jr. said I need to pull the team together, or else. He said, "Or else". I mean I'm just a housewife. I don't know what...

A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN — 1.05 “Back Footed”