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Eastbound & Down
SERIES: HBO, Sunday 10:30p (30 minutes)
Starring
Danny McBride,
Katy Mixon,
John Hawkes,
Jennifer Irwin,
Andrew Daly,
Steve Little,
and
Ben Best
Will Ferrell coproduces this comedy about a baseball player returning to North Carolina who finds a job as a gym teacher.
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
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| CREATED BY: |
Ben Best
Jody Hill
Danny McBride
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| FIRST AIR DATE: |
February 15, 2009 |
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
91
Entertainment Weekly Ken Tucker
What lifts Eastbound & Down away from mere crudball humor is McBride's ongoing love affair with the lower middle class.
90
Washington Post Tom Shales
Working something of a miracle, Danny McBride, who plays Kenny and is one of the creative talents behind the show premiering tomorrow on HBO--the most recklessly funny comedy of the year--makes us kind of like Kenny Powers.
88
New York Post Linda Stasi
If you thought "Tropic Thunder" was the funniest movie of the year and that everything Will Ferrell touches makes you laugh until you squirt Diet Pepsi out of your nose, then you will love Eastbound & Down.
75
Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan
Powers, the central character in the strangely compelling new HBO series Eastbound & Down is a down-on-his-luck pitcher whose glory days in the Major League are well behind him.
70
Philadelphia Daily News Ellen Gray
I generally don't place myself in that crowd [viewers who think there's nothing funnier than an overweight guy with a jock-strap tan line], being more "Elf" than "Old School," but McBride's Powers exudes a Mitch Williams-meets-John Kruk vibe that's hard to resist, and, hey, I laughed more than once.
70
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
The humor in Eastbound is a far cry from the cerebral comedy currently en vogue on shows like "The Office" and "30 Rock," but that doesn't mean Eastbound can't do sly humor that falls left of center.
60
Los Angeles Times Robert Lloyd
I can't say the pilot struck me as especially funny, but there are good things and talented people in it, and it looks good.
58
Time James Poniewozik
Eastbound & Down, is a funny show if you don't expect too much.
50
The New York Times Ginia Bellafante
Eastbound & Down feels static.
40
Newark Star-Ledger Alan Sepinwall
Maybe McBride has more pitches in his arsenal than he's shown so far, but the repertoire on display in Eastbound & Down feels too limited for a long stint on HBO's mound.
40
Miami Herald Glenn Garvin
Drugs. Pratfalls. Bodily excretions. Sexual crudity. Shock-jock ethnic humor. Four-letter words flying like lead in a matineee Western. Character development and story? Not so much.
30
Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
HBO's new series Eastbound & Down falls into the grating category of totally obnoxious dude comedies
30
Variety Brian Lowry
Even with the promise of a Ferrell cameo in future episodes, it's a tired premise--a more profane version of the kind of low-swinging sitcom that could easily have wound up on TBS.
25
San Francisco Chronicle Tim Goodman
It seems like a middling Fox series with a monotonous glut of obscenities and some nudity tossed in to make it pay-cable worthy.
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