“All American” came out in 2018 and is a very popular series on Netflix. This series is inspired by the life of professional American football player Spencer Paysinger and originally revolves around teen Spencer James, a rising football star from a Crenshaw High School whose dream is to go to the NFL. He then met coach Billy Baker from Beverly Hills, who offered him a better football career as Coach Baker as his coach. Spencer moved in with coach Baker and continued with his career and helped the team to victory. Spencer was drafted to the All American team with his roommate, Coach Baker’s son Jordan, and won the All American game.
Spencer and Jordan both ended up at GAU college where Jordan’s sister Olivia was going to school to become a journalist and wrote about GAU’s head coach Garrett having players hit other players on the field to harm them and take them out of the game for the season. When they got wind of the her writing about it, but coach Baker , Olivia’s father helped her find all the findings she was looking for. The journalist department agreed to allow Olivia to change her name in the article to save her from all the harassment.
Once the football team have graduated and most have already accepted their colleges couch Baker was offered a position at GAU but decided it was time for Spencer to move forward with a new coach and accepted head coach position at Crenshaw high school which was his childhood school. Coach Bakers team was heading to an out of town football game where the bus blew a tire causing the bus to crash. As Baker was doing a head count on team members he noticed a player was still on the bus and the bus was hanging on a cliff. Coach Baker entered the bus to help the player out. The player made it off the bus but coach Baker was unfortunate and died as the bus went over the cliff.
Once Spencer and Jordan were preparing for the NFL drafts they were facing intense media attention where Spencer started to lose control of his anger and wasn’t choose to be drafted at first. He became stressed over the drafts and trying to plan a wedding for him and Olivia. Around the same time of all the stressing moments their friend Patience’s was stabbed by a stalker as she was becoming a Music artist. Spencer and Olivia’s dream wedding was postponed but Spencer found a way to make her dream wedding come true with the help of his friends and family.
The most I enjoyed about the series so far is how close friends really can be even when they end up going to opposite schools. In this series it really shows a great group of friends who fall in and out but always find their way back to each other. Even the love felt from a coach to the players in amazing. I look forward to more seasons to come out to see where everyone is in life now and to see how all their friendships have continued. Spencer has been drafted to New York Giants in real life.