Kevin C. Wong

TV Show - The Crew s1 (2021) [+]

The Crew is a Netflix 10-episode comedy that was cancelled after one season. The concept is a NASCAR racing team, Bobby Spencer Racing, and the goings on behind the scenes.

Kevin Gibson (Kevin James) - crew chief
Catherine Spencer (Jillian Mueller) - owner's daughter and new CEO of Bobby Spencer Racing

One of the main plots is Kevin vs Catherine. Catherine is a Stanford business school graduate and wants to introduce .com management techniques whilst Kevin is more Southern old school not wanting to change anything. BTW this is one of those shows that if you want to be offended as a Liberal you will be as the jokes can get sexist, right wing, anti-intellectual though it manages to be funny and not mean about it and they also poke fun at sexist conservative Southerners and I did find the show very funny.

The racing team is not doing well financially. Catherine comes in and stirs things up by replacing the main sponsor (from a local BBQ chain to a .com fake meat company) and trying to replace their driver (a good racer but makes dumb mistakes) with an up-and-coming female driver (played by Paris Berelc). Meanwhile Kevin keeps undermining Catherine which by the end of the season may lead to him having to leave the team (again, all done in a funny way, this is not a dark or serious show).

As I said I found the show hilarious. I like NASCAR and the behind the scenes is interesting even though I have no idea how accurate it is. Kevin James is very good and the supporting actors do their bits well. It is a sort of brainless sit-com at times but that's quite all right.