Elizabeth Warren explains her obsession with HBO's Ballers: "The issues they’ve tackled on Ballers are real"

Entertainment Weekly

"It’s an interesting story that’s different from much of what’s on television," the Democratic presidential candidate tells EW in an in-depth interview about Ballers. "The issues they’ve tackled on Ballers are real. Remember the opening season, the guy who gets killed in the car crash; he’s rich and living on top of the world and suddenly he leaves behind a wife and children with nothing. Then, remember when Vern (Donovan W. Carter) blew out his knee playing paintball? It tells you something about what it means to live a life dependent on a small set of physical skills. The way they confront it over and over, like in the paintball episode: Tell the truth or back away from it? In this latest season, Spencer and the kid with the gun, Kisan (Kris D. Lofton). And then this notion of how are these young men going to build sustainable futures? And it’s not just financially sustainable, it’s a world where the competitiveness that has been so acutely honed in them since they were little children, what happens to it when you can’t play ball anymore?"