Stick(2025)

Stick follows a washed-up ex-golfer whose life has come apart in every direction at once: fired, separated, and broke, he latches onto coaching a teenage prodigy less out of generosity than desperation. The comedy comes from that gap between his wounded self-image and his actual circumstances, and the show gives the embarrassment room to land before it pivots toward warmth.

Golf here is a pressure mechanism rather than a spectacle. The teenager's raw talent is the one thing the man has left to leverage, which means every round, every argument, and every small breakthrough carries the weight of his financial ruin and collapsed marriage behind it. That concrete cost keeps the more tender moments from feeling easy, and the friction between a difficult kid and a man who needs him just as badly gives the story its particular texture.