{"id":770099,"date":"2026-07-18T11:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T11:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/770099\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T11:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T11:04:10","slug":"review-you-may-want-to-skip-will-ferrells-new-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/770099\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: You May Want to Skip Will Ferrell’s New Show"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n Will Ferrell’s latest sports comedy is likely to test fans’ patience, writes Daniel Fienberg at the Hollywood Reporter<\/a>. In his review of Netflix’s 10-episode golf series The Hawk<\/a>, Fienberg says the show manages to wring only the bare minimum of laughs from an all-star lineup that includes Ferrell, Molly Shannon, Fortune Feimster, Jimmy Tatro, Chris Parnell, David Hornsby, and Luke Wilson. Ferrell plays Lonnie “The Hawk” Hawkins, a once-dominant pro golfer stuck for a decade on the PGA’s feeder circuit and trying for a comeback that might also repair his family life. \n <\/p>\n

“In general, The Hawk is a show that consistently operates at a barely minimal level,” writes Fienberg. It “feels like a set of placeholder notecards, a vague outline of a series unencumbered by any fleshed-out ideas or characterizations. There will be countless worse shows this year, but it’s doubtful that 2026 will offer a show as hollow and forgettable as The Hawk.” If that sounds harsh, note that the show has a meager 31% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>. At Slate<\/a>, Alex Kirshner can’t figure out why it’s apparently so hard for anyone to make a decent show about golf. This latest is “so bad that I’m calling for a moratorium on all golf shows,” reads the headline to his review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Will Ferrell’s latest sports comedy is likely to test fans’ patience, writes Daniel Fienberg at the Hollywood…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,45521,217,3332,14072],"class_list":["post-770099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-molly-shannon","tag-netflix","tag-pga-tour","tag-will-ferrell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}