{"id":9358,"date":"2026-07-24T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T09:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thehotedit.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/the-dink-on-apple-tv-review-pickleball-comedy-cant-get-over-the-net\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T10:01:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T09:01:00","slug":"the-dink-on-apple-tv-review-pickleball-comedy-cant-get-over-the-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehotedit.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/the-dink-on-apple-tv-review-pickleball-comedy-cant-get-over-the-net\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dink on Apple TV review: Pickleball comedy can\u2019t get over the net"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Indeed, it is set up in this way, with a backstory about Dusty (Jake Johnson), once the bright young hope of tennis and nicknamed \u201cThe Hammer\u201d, until an accident during a game with Andy Roddick ended his career while still in his teens. Now a middle-aged, mildly loser-ish coach working for his tennis club-owning father Chuck (Ed Harris), he winds up trying out pickleball as a break and finds fun, expression and nearromance with older woman Candace (Mary Steenburgen). This latter aspect is almost a refreshing flip of the usual older male actor\/younger love interest dynamic (Johnson is 48, Steenburgen is 73), but as with everything here, it chooses a safe option over anything too outrageous \u2014 she rebuffs his crush, wanting him for a nice pickleball partner alone.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/culture\/film\/the-dink-review-pickleball-movie-apple-tv-b1291157.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indeed, it is set up in this way, with a backstory about Dusty (Jake Johnson), once the bright young hope of tennis and nicknamed \u201cThe Hammer\u201d, until an accident during a game with Andy Roddick ended his career while still in his teens. Now a middle-aged, mildly loser-ish coach working for his tennis club-owning father [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static.standard.co.uk\/2026\/07\/24\/8\/30\/The-Dink-on-Apple-TV.jpeg?width=1200&auto=webp&quality=75","fifu_image_alt":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[599,7738,567,12494,12495,12493,12496,6676,95],"class_list":["post-9358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film","tag-apple","tag-apple-tv","tag-comedy","tag-comedy-films","tag-dink","tag-film-reviews","tag-net","tag-pickleball","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehotedit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehotedit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehotedit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehotedit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehotedit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thehotedit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehotedit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehotedit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehotedit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehotedit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}