[ux_latest_products columns=”4″ title=”Check our Latest products!”]
Eastbound and Down a relatively new and absolutely black comedy series from the satellite TV channel HBO, is something of an oddity. It stars Danny McBride as Kenny Powers, a former professional baseball pitcher. He was going to make the Big Leagues; he was poised to become a huge sports star, who would turn up on satellite TV hawking tonics and sports drinks. However his dreams were smashed. His pitch wasn’t up to par and his personality wasn’t winning.
Eastbound and Down is the latest project from Will Ferrell (of Saturday Night Live, Talladega Nights, Blades of Glory fame) and Adam McKay’s production company Gary Sanchez Productions, which also happens to be the comic genius behind the website FunnyorDie.com. Eastbound and Down also stars Katy Mixon, and John Hawkes among others.
After Kenny Powers quits the big leagues, or rather as they quit him, due to a combination of poor habits, poor attitude and just plain bad karma, he heads back to his home town of Shelby County in North Carolina where he took a job as a substitute gym teacher, because he needed the cash so that the IRS could garnish his wages. All the while, the one and only former fast pitcher plots his return to sports glory.
When he was just 19 he helped his team win the World Series; but that was a long time ago. As the
character himself admits, ‘sometimes when you bring the thunder you get lost in the storm.’ Kenny Powers is a man that’s full of himself. He drinks, and his puffy, soft body goes to show for it.
Kenny meets an ex-flame, April, played by Katy Mixon, who is now engaged to the school principal, where he works as a substitute teacher. There’s a bit of romantic comedy thrown in, but it’s not the sort of Cary Grant romance you’d expect. Kenny is guy who likes money, wears a mullet and vomits at a school dance. Of course, no one really sympathizes with Mr. Powers, and even his one sycophant, Stevie, the high school band teacher who takes the blame for all of Kenny’s antics because he used to idolize him, begins to become a little bitter and angry.
Of course, this leads to even more comedy the type you can only expect from Will Ferrell and company.
The show is very homey and grass roots. Still, there are the cameos-Ferrell himself plays a car dealer, and some other comic geniuses have guested on the show. And yet, it’s a show that is contained. It’s not the type of thing that will go on and on. The character Kenny Powers is a sort of jerk, but in the end we realize he’s not so bad after all. He’s just a former sports star with a mullet.
The show has recently been renewed for another season, which means you can enjoy all the comedic larking about and clowning around again. In the upcoming season, Kenny, who is in pretty bad shape may get a second chance.
black t shirt|
write by peterson