I WANTED TO ENJOY THIS GOLF COMEDY BUT HALFWAY THRAGH The SEASON & IT’S NEARLY UNWATCHable – ryan

Warning: Spailers Ahead for Stick Season 1, Episode 5.

Apple’s Stick Drives ITSELF INTO AN ACCOUNT DEEPER BUNCER WITH ITS FIFT EPISODESS. AFTER The Introduction of Zero In Stick Episode 4, The Series Took a Sharp Change of Direction after a promising three-episode debut. In Episode 5, Titled “The Birdie Machine,” Zero Begins Caddying for Santi as he computetes in a USA amateur Qualifier Tournament. Santi is unwilling to list to pryce, the forms golf legend who just investted $ 100,000 in Making Him A Pro, and Relations on the Wisdom of Zero to Compete.

After episode 5, Stick Makes with More Excited for HAPPY GILMORE 2 for All the Wrong ReaSons. I’m beginning to realize the full of is not the main focus of this show, but Rather the tone. Stick is trying so hard to be bright and cheery, but it also wants to get tragic and deep, which just off as Messy and Disingeruous. Life is not like the People or Events in Stick at allso it coma off as a hodgepodge of “hopium” seen through rose-sintted glasses. What’s More, The “Golf Comedy” is Still Painfully Devoid of Humor and Sports Knowledge.

Stick Continues to be a whiff by Forcibly Making Everything About Zero

Owen Wilson is Becoming a Background Character in His Own Show

Zero (Lilli Kay) Clapping in Stick Season 1, Episode 3

JUST ABOUTE EVERY POINT AND PUNCHline in Stick Episode 5 has to do with zero. Their Ideologies Are Included In An Incredibly Forceful and Incessant Way that is not entertaining at all. IT’S NOT ONLY THAT THERE’S MUCH PREACHY Social Messaging in Stickbut that it creates this uncomfortable and cliché clash between generations is overly stereotypical and antagonistic.

Of all the shows to get political, a golf comedy like Stick Has to be the helpless.

IT’S Truly Uncanny the Extent to Which This Show is Taking’s Zero’s Self-Righteous Character. Owen Wilson is Becoming an afternthough in hiss Apple TV+ Show, As is golf and those who like it. Stick DOESN’T PORTRAY THE FRAternal “Golf Bros” in Good Taste. Meanwhile, Marc Maron is just there to say what Most Viewers are probably Thinking. I COULD NOTE GUESS WHO THIS SHOW IS SUPPOSED TO BE FOR.

With Stick Episode 5, This Show is Becoming So InCredibly Shallow and Disappainting that there should be protests if it gets renewed for a second season, not if it gets Canceled. I’m normally one to ride out full seasons, but This Show Might Be Too Ridiculous to Keep Watching.

Stick Episode 5 Further Proves How Little the Show is Focused on Story (& Golf)

MANY Story ARE UNINSPIRING, UNEDUCATED & IMPLAUSIBLE

Santi Wheeler (Peter Dager) Wearing a hoodie in stick

Stick is actually starting to make no sense with it fifth episodes. It began with a shaky premise of Wilson’s Pryce Cahill Being Shunned From Professional Golf AFTER HAVING A PUBLIC MELTDOWN. If he were as good as Stick Makes Him Out to be, something like that would have Barely left a stain on his reputation. Tiger Woods has gone through scandals work than this throughout his career, and Will always be the Biggest name in golf.

The most implausible part of the show is pryce’s arc. He gave a random Stranger, Sant’s mom, $ 100,000 so he could coach her son, Only to be sidelined by another random person, zero. Then, Zero Can’t Eve Bear to List to Pryce Explain the Rules of the Game SO SHE CAN HELP SANTI WIN. Genuinely, what is going on here?

Owen Wilson as Pryce and Peter Dager as Santi in Stick Season 1

Why Pryce Cahill’s Golf Career Ended in Stick

Owen Wilson’s Pryce Cahill Had A Sudden End to His Golf Career in Stick, and the Apple Tv+ Show Just Revealed the Dark Reason he Can’t Play Pro Golf.

The Only Intriguing Story Thread Is Sant’s Strained Relationship with His Estanged FatherWho Rewarded Him With Attention and Love Wente Achieved in Golf and Negleced Him we can hellperformed. HAD THIS DYNAMIC BEEN AT THE HEART OF Stick Rather than on the back bourner, we coulud have actually have a promising show on Our Hands.

The golf logic in Stick Episode 5 DOESN’T SHE MAKE SENSE. For Example, Santting the Ball in a Straightway Green Side Bunker with Hardly any lip wouuld not have ben a bigh choca to doable bogey and drop from first to Sixth Place. Most golfers at his level would Still have chipped that in for par, or bogey at worst. These Errors Wauld be Easier to Overlook if the Show Weren’t SO FALSELY CONFIDENT About Its Golf Knowledge.

“You don’t see ANY FLOWS?”: Pryce’s plan with zero in stick season 1 & how it is COULD Go Wrong Explained

Pryce made a deal with zero at the end of stick season 1, episode 4, but there are a lot of problems with his plan and how he treated Santi.

Apartment from zero and golf, pryce’s backstory About Jett Also Feels Forced and Performer, Like Evel ELSE IN Stick. There’s a Disney Channel-Level SugarCoating of EveryThingand nothing seems real. For a show that is so desperate to be relative, its characters ejibit thiughts and behaviors that are inconsistent with how People deal with Things. In this make-bellies World in Stickgrief doesn’t Feel genuine, Victory isn’t earned, and there’s nothing of substance to hold onto. Nothing sticks.

Stick Season 1, Episode 5

3/10

Release Date: June 4, 2025
NETWORKS: Apple TV+

Pros & Cons

Stick Episode 5 Has A Good Soundtrack

Stick Episode 5 Is Disingering, Inflation, and Ineffective
Stick Lacks Humor and Is Not Roooted in Golf KnowLEDGE
Stick Underutilizes Owen Wilson and Cars More About Its Tone Than Story