But in tracing the impact of a godlike baseball player (the perfectly cast Daniel Sunjata) who declares his homosexuality, Mr. Greenberg winds up sacrificing fully developed characters and plotting to Ideas with a capital I. But his infatuation with baseball makes this a show to cheer about (2:45).

Our script decisions involved sacrificing delightful characters and situations.

But in tracing the impact of a godlike baseball player (the perfectly cast Daniel Sunjata) who declares his homosexuality, Mr. Greenberg winds up sacrificing fully developed characters plotting to Ideas with a capital I. Those notorious shower scenes remain, just so you know.