EPISODE
SEASON
Eastbound And Down - Season 1
Kenny Powers, a former professional baseball pitcher, who after an up and down career in the major leagues is forced to return to his hometown, as a substitute physical education teacher. Powers, who clearly still lives in the past, proudly rocks his mullet and chases after high-school girlfriend April.
5 November 1950, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, USA
19 December 1968, Long Island, New York, USA
4 April 1980, King George, Virginia, USA
February 15, 2009
Eastbound & Down feels like a margarine, not butter, version of Talladega Nights.February 15, 2009
I am not ready to write it off: I will give it the benefit of its arc.February 15, 2009
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.February 15, 2009
It seems like a middling Fox series with a monotonous glut of obscenities and some nudity tossed in to make it pay-cable worthy.February 15, 2009
The comedy - and, oh, there is much of it - comes less from sight gags or clever one-liners as it does from the sheer absurdity of what transpires and the ever-increasing ability for Powers to sink lower and fail more grandly from episode to episode.February 15, 2009
it's a tired premise - a more profane version of the kind of low-swinging sitcom that could easily have wound up on TBS.February 15, 2009
I don't know bout y'all but I'm hooked.February 15, 2009
Eastbound & Down is a funny show if you don't expect too much.February 15, 2009
The obnoxiousness is just a shortcut to a headache.February 15, 2009
I can't escape the feeling that it might have worked best as the first third of a comedic washed-up-athlete film.