How’s this for a pitch: Joel Embiid meets a shady version of The Office.
That’s the loose premise behind the third season premiere of The 5th Quarter, a sports mockumentary series chronicling “the greatest untold and untrue stories in sports history” that airs on Verizon’s go90 platform.
Never heard of go90? You’re not alone. It’s Verizon’s mobile-only content service named after viewers turning their phones to watch videos in landscape mode (“go 90” degrees). While go90 has been toiling in relative obscurity compared to streaming services like Netflix and Hulu, The success of the first season of The 5th Quarter has managed to attract a lot of big names in the sports world to the show, including Los Angeles Clippers star Blake Griffin, Lonzo and LaVar Ball, and of course, Embiid.