10 TV Shows That Deserved To Become Cult Hits (That Didn't)
2. Brockmire
Known primarily for his exceptional work on The Simpsons and big-screen displays in The Night of the Museum, Godzilla, and The Birdcage, Hank Azaria and his legendary voice are front and centre in IFC's Brockmire.
And there's an argument to be made that the star has never actually been better than he is over the course of this four-season side-splitting character study.
On the back of a very public meltdown, Azaria's alcoholic and somewhat broken former Kansas City broadcaster Jim Brockmire is forced to work his way back up through the minor baseball leagues. Azaria had actually initially created the character for a web series back in 2010, but what Brockmire ultimately grew into over the course of the show's massively underrated run caught just about anyone who took a chance on the little-watched sitcom entirely off-guard.
The never-ending stream of highly quotable one-liners and frequent surprisingly emotional gut-punch that is this darkly comical love-letter to baseball, has never quite reached enough folks to grow to the level of full-on home run of a cult hit, though. But hopefully time will bring with it some much-deserved attention to one of the most overlooked dramedies of the late 2010s.