I'm a "sneakerhead"; a collector and reseller (as it's been dubbed). I wanted to like this show, I thought it would really focus on the collecting and selling of sneakers and the present day scene; the "bottling" on online stores, the struggle to buy at retail, the many, many disappointing days when you try for hours to buy one pair in your size, but fail. I mean, it touched on this (and turns out the entire premise was the main character trying to buy one pair, but this is easily forgotten in amongst the tired jokes and unbelievable decision making of the characters), but I found the show to more about how many cameos and name drops could be written into each episode in at attempt to be the next "Entourage". The protagonist spends his family's vacation savings on an unpaid storage locker in an attempt to score big but all falls apart when the shoe boxes in the locker only contain one shoe and not the pair. Any sneaker head would know that you could EASILY sell one Nike Air Mag with its box for big money even if it wasn't in a pair - but the so called "OG sneakerhead" main character, who is set up to be a big player who has left the scene, completely ignores this fact and too-easily concedes that his annoyingly acted best friend's idea to follow pipe dreams is more logical than trying to sell the many "grail" shoe and boxes to recoup his losses is a better option.
A side note: I found one of the most irritating parts of Sneakerheads to be it's celebrity cameos or lack there of (Mark Wahlberg?). If you're going to try to stuff in as many "real" cameos as possible, why, so blatantly, throw in a replacement that neither looks, or sounds, like the real thing?
A side note: I found one of the most irritating parts of Sneakerheads to be it's celebrity cameos or lack there of (Mark Wahlberg?). If you're going to try to stuff in as many "real" cameos as possible, why, so blatantly, throw in a replacement that neither looks, or sounds, like the real thing?