TV Show Review - “East Bound & Down”
GRADE: B+
Will Ferrell is an executive producer of “Eastbound,” which stars doughy Danny McBride, the Buddhist drug dealer in “Pineapple Express,” the pyrotechnics guy in “Tropic Thunder” and Ferrell’s costar in the upcoming “Land of the Lost” — as Kenny Powers, a former big-league, big-star ballplayer whose career, ignited in a moment of rookie glory, has come crashing to earth in ashes with an inflated ego and fleeting talent.
Depressed but hardly chastened, Kenny Powers returns to his small home town in the South, where moves in with his brother’s family and goes to work as a substitute P.E. teacher at his old middle school. The problem is that Kenny is a legend in his own mind even though he is sleeping in his brother’s guest room. Kenny also tries to rekindle the spark with his old girlfriend who just happens to teach at the same school and is engaged to the nerdy principal.
McBride is hilarious as the blustery, foul-mouthed Kenny, too clueless to figure out that he’s his own worst enemy. The show itself is squirm-inducing, inappropriate comedy of the highest order, and that is what makes it so fresh. After watching just 3 epsiodes of “East Bound & Down” I am hooked. This pay cable show is already better than most shows on primetime that consider themselves “comedies” such as “How I Met Your Mother” and “Two & Half Men”. If you love the crude humor of films such as “Tropic Thunder” then you will enjoy this scathing comedy, check it out if you have HBO!
WATCH A TRAILER FOR “EAST BOUND & DOWN” HERE:
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