Customer Reviews

Eastbound & Down: The Complete First Season

5 star:		(59)
4 star:		(16)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(6)

 

 

This is the funniest series I've seen in along time. With only 6 episodes in season 1 you'll be left wanting more. Sarcastic, fun loving assh*le genius Danny McBride with guest appearance Will Ferrell, tie this show into a comedy that leaves you covering your face in embarrassment, wondering how they got the balls create such a gem.

Do yourself a favor and pick this one up. Underrated as hell, spread the word. Kudos, Danny McBride.

Also see the "Foot Fist Way" if you like this DVD.

Danny McBride has found something special in KENNY POWERS. Though Kenny's life states to be ruled by talent and the grace of god. In fact his life is almost complete anarchy riddled with drugs, loose women, and a wall of denial. However even within only 6 episodes you see something change. This man starts to find his way out of the darkness. Danny McBride delivers some of the best SELF ABUSE humor ever. THIS BY FAR IS THE BEST SHOW ON TV. Is it better to burn out or fade away? Do we need a 2nd season, have we burned all the bridges, uncovered all of Kenny's stones? Even if the idiots at network don't renew the series,with only 6 episodes deep it will stand on it's own to become an instant cult classic.

One of the funniest shows with one of the funniest actors I've seen in a long, long time. He made Pineapple Express. He made Tropic Thunder. Killed it in The Heartbreak Kid and absolutely owns it on this show. Nothing is held back, the season hasn't even completely aired yet and I already want the DVD. Do yourself a favor and watch this show, you'll thank me later.

I never understood all of those people that are obsessed with things like Star Wars, Star Trek, etc.....until this show came out!
My husband and I can't get enough! We watch it over & over! We are counting down the days until the DVD comes out and hope we can survive until season 2 comes out.
Trust me, the $20-$30 you will spend on this DVD will be the best money you've ever spent!
You will watch it ON THE REG!!!

One of the funniest TV shows ever. It's a literal cornucopia of comedy quotes you'll be repeating over and over to fellow fans of the show. Danny McBride is at his best as Kenny Powers. Classic stuff. I am definitely going to be buying the DVDs when they come out so I can watch the shows all over again. I really hope HBO does another season of this one. It's the best thing they done since The Sopranos. Highly recommended.

When I heard Jody Hill and Danny McBride were working on a television show my curiosity was peaked. I really enjoyed the Foot Fist Way and was hoping for something similar. Suffice to that all of my expectations were met.

The show is about an out of work major league baseball player named Kenny Powers...Forced out of the league due to drug use and a lacking performance, he moves to a small town to live with his brother. Eventually Kenny gets a job subbing at an elementary school where he meets up with an old flame who's engaged to the extremely nerdy principal.

The 6 episodes follow Kenny Powers as he attempts to get back into MLB. A lot of familiar faces pop up throughout the series, Will Farrel and Craig Robinson just to name a few.

The comedy style is similar to that of the Apatow crew, so if you're a fan of those films then this will be up your alley. However, some people have grown tired of that clan, but I urge you to set aside your differences and check out this show with an open mind.

Now lets talk about the DVD. Along with all the season 1 episodes you're getting a very nice making of featurette. The usual deleted scenes, outtakes, and commentaries on a few episodes. Rounding out the disc is Kenny Powers' Greatest Hits, Schaeffer Motor Commercials, and Stevie's Dark Secret which are all featured in the show, only expanded to full length.

Rude, crude, and hilarious, this is one series you do not want to miss.

This may be the most offensive, lowball, politically incorrect, rabblerousing series ever pitched to television. And I loved every greasy, bloated minute of it. Danny McBride creates one of the most instantly memorable, disturbingly loveable characters in modern television history. An egotistical, once gifted pitcher for whom the terms knucklehead and knuckleball seem simultaneously appropriate. McBride's Kenny has been so well thought out, is so beautifully portrayed and so believable the show - especially in the current trend of filming comedies - has the authenticity of a documentary.

Kenny Power's treatment of everyone around him - or anyone who might pass even remotely through his universe - reveals a realistically bigoted monster of legendary proportions. He is the sort of creation the worlds of sport and entertainment have routinely specialized in creating since the invention of the motion picture camera, stroking their egos, kowtowing to their idiotic whims, and both ignoring and rewarding offensive behavior for one reason only: it sells tickets. Once, however, these Neanderthals cease to be of use to the organization (in this instance Major League Baseball) they are dropped back into the primitive worlds from whence they came with nary a thought or care about how they are to survive in a world they longed to escape from, but now find themselves hopelessly and ill prepared to face. Tragic? Oh yeah. But effin' hilarious, too!

Kenny is clearly modeled on an amalgamation of baseball personas - John Rocker, Roger Clements, Jose Conseco . . . and more all show up in the way Kenny turns a phrase, carts his bloated carcass across the screen, and preens before the public believing he is the cock of the walk.

Interestingly, his fall from grace occurs within the first five minutes of the series - and we see the aftermath of celebrity excess and abuse of privilege as Kenny struggles to eke out a living as a substitute middle school teacher, living in his brother and sister-in-laws den and hang on to what little dignity he thinks he has left - which unfortunately for him (but blessedly for us) overs somewhere between zero and negative 1000.

Kudos to HBO and their production team (including Will Ferrell, who plays a classic over-the-top car dealer eager to play up to the former baseballs star's fame and cash in for his own devilishly delicious purposes) in presenting this timely, entertaining and sometimes surprisingly touching show. The entire cast seems to actually live their roles - in particularly Katy Mixon who shines as Kenny's voluptuous former Southern Belle girlfriend, John Hawkes and Jennifer Irwin as his Kenny's much put upon brother and sister-in-law, former former beau and Steve Little nearly walks away with the show as the horrificly nerdy band teacher Stevie Janowski who during the course of the series becomes so disturbingly obsessed with Kenny it reaches the point of dark, homoerotic stalking.

Even though it consists chiefly of six short episodes, the highly episodic style in which this is filmed gives the feel not of a short series, but rather of an excellent - laugh til you burst - 3 hour film of comic genius. Season Two, please!

If you think I am exaggerating about hating sports, I did not even realize my city had a new version of the Cleveland Browns until two years after they had resumed playing. I learned in a Burger King when the guy waiting on me wanted to commiserate with me over our losing the game and all I could say was, "You mean they're back?"

So for me to enjoy a sports based tv series is saying one heck of a lot. The main reason is that Danny McBride, in the lead role as the former star baseball player forced to teach school and live with this brother, is absolutely hilarious. You are tempted to really hate him. He is totally obnoxious. He is trying to do everything in his power to get back into the big time with nary a hint of regret over his own behavior which brought about his downfall. Yet there is something just so universal about how far he has fallen and how hard he tries to keep going to pick himself back up. His efforts to do so are obnoxious, humiliating, touching and hilarious. Two favorite moments for me were his trying to sell his memorabilia on ebay for big bucks and dictating his own audiobook on how to be a big deal.

Will Farrell's production company got this off the ground for HBO and Farrell himself plays the major car dealer in town who is able to lord it over the former big deal sports star. He is almost unrecognizable in his wig and other accessories but he is also hilarious as usual.

I tried watching FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS, which has gotten excellent reviews, but I couldn't get past the sports in that show. I made it through one episode and gave up. So it has got to be the writing and the comedy in this show that make it happen for me.

This is an HBO show, which comes as no big surprise. I really wonder how we lived through tv shows before HBO got into doing tv series. Luckily, others are now following the HBO model.

this show is about Kenny powers a baseball player who was once rich and famous and after years out of the spot light moves back to his brothers house. The entire time your watching this show you keep telling yourself " No he did not just say that!". Kenny Powers in my opinion is one of the most offensive and vulgar characters to ever be featured on TV hands down. Will Farell makes a few appearances and brings his madness and crazy comedy we all know to the show. Non stop laughs with punch lines you'll never forget, the only criticism i have is that the show is not long enough, after you finish all the episodes you'll want more and right now we all have to wait. :-)

Anybody that would have the audacity to rate this as a 1 star, just doesn't understand it. Go back to watching your romantic comedies where all the "writing" and "jokes" are tired and lame, just like the people that watch them. Eastbound and Down is comic genius, get over it.