Stick

Owen Wilson comes out swinging—gently—as a once-famous golfer

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COMEDYStick, an eight-episode vehicle for the always likable Owen Wilson, is a golfer’s Ted Lasso. Like that Apple TV+ hit about an American coach (Jason Sudeikis) finding a winning formula for a British football team, Stick is genial, relaxing and easygoing, possibly more than it needs to be. You may occasionally wish everyone would pile into a turbocharged golf cart and just go. Or maybe there could be a subplot about competitive ballroom dancing. That’d be something! But if you’re missing Lasso and/or still recovering from the year’s other very dark shows—Jason Isaacs encouraging his family to drink poisoned piña coladas on HBO’s The White Lotus, for example, or Stephen Graham sobbing alone in his son’s bedroom on Netflix’s