After the great success of the first season that follows, Jim Brockmire, a famed major league baseball who faces an embarrassing and very public shameful news that he finds out that his beloved wife is cheating on him the news that destroyed his life as he lost his job and desire on living, the second season completes the incidents that he decides to begin a new life with hope and return to search for work in a small town.
Brockmire works because of the debased grandiloquence Azaria pours into the title character. Few comedies can pitch floridly foul yet intelligent dialogue and not only get away with it, but make it the backbone of the show's appeal.
Hilarious and moving in equal measure, Brockmire's sophomore rise wonderfully captures the moment when a comeback turns into a self-fueled nightmare, and how losing everything once again might be the ticket to even greater success.
Jim Brockmire is erudite yet crass; progressive yet reactionary; empathetic, yet selfish. It would only make sense that he would be drawn to America's grand blank slate in baseball because he has so much to bring to it.
