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Magnificent Low Comedy -- An Anti-Hero For Our Times
Kenny Powers is cruder and dumber than all Three Stooges, more uproariously irreverent than the whole South Park Gang, and more sexually out of control than Kid Rock, Howard Stern, and Hugh Hefner combined.
But that's not the only reason why this outlaw HBO Series is so meaningful and profoundly stirring. It's about a man, or rather a legend, a super man, who has more natural, God-given talents (on and off the baseball diamond) than anyone else in his community, or indeed anyone else on earth. And it's about how even when society betrays him, and refuses to show him respect, and refuses to allow him to be the person he was meant to be, he never once gives in. He never compromises. He continues to be Kenny Powers, the hero that he believes in. This man is as pure in his anarchic fury as Alex in A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, even if he is (generally) a less violent egomaniac.
Kenny Powers lives the dream. Kenny powers IS the dream.
And there's a little Stevie in all of us.
But that's not the only reason why this outlaw HBO Series is so meaningful and profoundly stirring. It's about a man, or rather a legend, a super man, who has more natural, God-given talents (on and off the baseball diamond) than anyone else in his community, or indeed anyone else on earth. And it's about how even when society betrays him, and refuses to show him respect, and refuses to allow him to be the person he was meant to be, he never once gives in. He never compromises. He continues to be Kenny Powers, the hero that he believes in. This man is as pure in his anarchic fury as Alex in A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, even if he is (generally) a less violent egomaniac.
Kenny Powers lives the dream. Kenny powers IS the dream.
And there's a little Stevie in all of us.
- Dan1863Sickles
- Jan 31, 2019
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Chapter 1
Danny McBride goes trailer trash in this opening episode of Eastbound & Down.
He plays Kenny Powers, a former major league baseball pitcher who was an uncouth loudmouth. Now hitting a career decline, he has returned to his hometown and temporarily pitched up at his brother's house.
Powers has got a job as a substitute physical education teacher at high school.
Powers drinks a lot, snorts drugs, he is an egoist, he wants to make America great again. He also thinks his baseball career will ascend and wants to rekindle his relationship with a former girlfriend.
As a HBO comedy series. This was crude and adult. Of course the joke is Powers himself. Although McBride correctly guesses that if he pitches him right, some of the viewers will actually root for Powers and his attitudes.
Sporadically funny although Powers is such an off putting character in this first episode.
He plays Kenny Powers, a former major league baseball pitcher who was an uncouth loudmouth. Now hitting a career decline, he has returned to his hometown and temporarily pitched up at his brother's house.
Powers has got a job as a substitute physical education teacher at high school.
Powers drinks a lot, snorts drugs, he is an egoist, he wants to make America great again. He also thinks his baseball career will ascend and wants to rekindle his relationship with a former girlfriend.
As a HBO comedy series. This was crude and adult. Of course the joke is Powers himself. Although McBride correctly guesses that if he pitches him right, some of the viewers will actually root for Powers and his attitudes.
Sporadically funny although Powers is such an off putting character in this first episode.
- Prismark10
- Mar 25, 2020
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