Chet Hanks makes his acting comeback in Netflix's sports comedy, Running Point, and his performance as an unruly athlete may be his best yet.

Hanks is, of course, the son of Hollywood institution Tom Hanks, and if you recognize him, it’s probably not for any good reasons: He has gone viral for doing such yikes-worthy things as speaking in a Jamaican patois and trying to make the phrase “white boy summer” a thing.

For a while, Chet Hanks was arguably one of the most confounding people in Hollywood. Then he found a way to pour that perception into a perfect role.

He may be playing a parody of a parody of himself on Netflix's 'Running Point,' but in real life, the one-time black sheep of the Hanks family is sober, serious about his acting and music careers, and ready to reintroduce himself.

The Oscars could actually be good this year. Chet Hanks, actually amazing actor? My new The Traitors queen. The internet is not being kind to Katy Perry. New favorite comedy scene. I tuned into the new Netflix comedy Running Point because of how much I like its stars.

With his latest role, Chet Hanks got to explore some art imitating life. The Running Point actor, who is the son of Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, recently revealed he was prepared to “quit acting” if he didn’t get the role of basketball bad boy Travis Bugg on the Netflix sports comedy series from Mindy

Hanks is widely seen as the antithesis of his father’s persona as America’s dad. Now three years sober, he’s stealing scenes in ‘Running Point,’ Netflix’s new sports comedy. “I basically get to be a slightly exaggerated version of myself,

Big is a 1988 comedy with drama and fantasy elements scattered throughout. It follows a young boy named Josh Baskin, who makes a wish on a Zoltar fortune-telling machine and magically turns into a "big" person. Tom Hanks plays the grown-up Josh, and his performance was mind-blowingly convincing of a frightened boy in an uncertain environment.

Our Call: STREAM IT. While The Americas continues the recent trend of nature docuseries that leverage new technology to get clear, intimate footage of wildlife, its concentration on different regions of the American supercontinent, and Hanks’ narration, make it worth watching.

The son of actors Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, Hanks once described himself as the “black sheep” of his artistic family. Now he’s stealing scenes in the new Netflix series, “Running Point.”