Timed to coincide with the occasional racquet-throwing, name-calling, game-suspension antics of Wimbledon, HBO's new quick-and-dirty sports mockumentary, "7 Days in Hell," is as strange and splendid a bit of satire as you will ever find jampacked into 42 minutes of television.
The program, which premieres Saturday, deftly spoofs Wimbledon, the tennis world, the sports documentary, the resurrection/little guy/dark horse tale, and, with scenes of outrageous nudity and sexuality, the mockumentary itself. Certainly the Andy Samberg- and "Girls" writer Murray Miller-driven satire sets new cinematic standards for digital orgy scenes and general scrotal usage.
With the aid of "playing themselves" commentators Serena Williams, Chris Evert, Jim Lampley and John McEnroe, the film chronicles a legendary (and obviously fictional) weeklong match between washed-up American bad boy Aaron Williams (Samberg in an Andre Agassi wig that may require a new Emmy category) and the dimwitted odds-on British champion Charles Poole ("Game of Thrones' " Kit Harington, as far from Jon Snow as it is possible to be while still playing a human).