Partners Pickleball Documentary Review - Episodes 1-3 (Spoilers)

Hunter Johnson and Parris Todd are featured prominently in the first three episodes of Partners, both for their on-court accomplishments and their off-the-court relationship. PPA/Pickleball. com Note!

This article contains spoilers for the first three episodes of the Partners Documentary! Do not read further unless you have watched the first three episodes or you don’t mind having the episodes spoiled! The excellent new documentary series Partners dropped all six of its episodes this week.

Here’s a review of the first three episodes, and we’ll review the second three in a later post. In full disclosure before you read onwards, I was interviewed in July 2025 for this documentary, and I’m featured somewhat regularly throughout the first three episodes, especially towards the end of the second episode and the beginning of the third. If you’re a cynic and believe this skews my opinion and recap of the show, I completely understand and feel free to move on from my review below.

I received no payment for the interviews I gave, and I have no compensation or ownership stake in the film. As we knew from watching the trailer, released in early April and reviewed here , this documentary focuses partly on the business side of the sport that the Professional Pickleball Association (PPA) faces, and partly on the human interest side of the players who travel together to compete on the PPA. As the documentary show runner/executive producer Mark Infante said, “the show tiptoes the line between a traditional sports documentary series and a reality show.