While home to one of the best shows on TV with “Transparent,” the Amazon has a lot of… other stuff. There’s “Bosch,” which your Dad probably watches between naps. There’s “Mozart In The Jungle,” which even won a Golden Globe, but we’re still not even sure what is. There is also a thing called “Patriot.” Which brings us to “Red Oaks,” which we didn’t even know was still on, but given that I don’t know a single person who ever watched an episode, it makes sense that it’s coming to an end.
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The upcoming third season will be the last run for the show from Steven Soderbergh and Greg Jacobs, which started off by following David, a college student working at a New Jersey country club during his summer break in 1985, who is now a tennis pro and aspiring filmmaker. And in the final season, which has plot details under lock and key for the moment, the material really connected to David Gordon Green, who directs some of the upcoming season.
“I grew up in Dallas, TX, and [the ’80s] was when my awakening to pop culture, film, television, and music was really huge and very vivid in my life,” he said at the Tribeca TV Festival (via Indiewire). “I was a little younger, but I really identified with [David]. When I read the pilot Greg and Joe [Gangemi] wrote, I felt like this was written for me to make. There’s both this naïveté and passion from an aspiring filmmaker who lives outside the system but has this creative voice.”
“Red Oaks” says farewell on October 20th.