What a viewNetflix show Jump Like a Witch: female Korean celebrities learn to play basketball as sports reality TV jumps to a new level
- Korean celebrities, including Honey J, Byul, Koh Soo-hee and Jang Do-youn, are coached by Olympians Moon Kyung-eun and Hyun Joo-yup
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Anything the boys can do, the girls can do just as well, because coming soon is Season 2 of Jump Like a Witch (Netflix), the Korean show that puts the hoop-la into reality-sport TV.
The Gentlemen’s League, in which a football team is built from scratch to challenge for national honours, may have already graduated to a second series, but Jump Like a Witch has loftier ambitions.
This oddball experiment, featuring female entertainment-industry famous names learning to play basketball, brings with it guaranteed altitude: the hoop is three metres high, after all.
In Season 1, coaches and former South Korean Olympians Moon Kyung-eun (nickname: Rambo Shooter) and Hyun Joo-yup (“the Korean Charles Barkley”) assess the size of their task at the outset with poorly disguised disgust.
They must turn seven celebrities whose exposure to sport seems to be entirely via television (if it enters their lives at all) into a winning team. This will mean pushing through the slapstick of their initial efforts, dispensing with the players’ embarrassment at their skill levels, and, in the case of dancer Honey J, embracing the crucial tactical move of cutting her fingernails.