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  • Eastbound and Down: season 1, episode 6

    "Chapter Six" 

    March 22, 2009 - 10:03p.m.

     
     
    Well, friends. It is a sad, sad day for the lovers of quirky HBO Sunday comedies. It looks like two of my favorite shows, Flight Of The Conchords and Eastbound & Down, almost assuredly ended their runs today. Bret and Jemaine ...

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  • Eastbound and Down: season 1, episode 5

    "Chapter Five"

    March 15, 2009 - 07:03a.m.

     
    In tonight’s episode of Eastbound & Down Kenny Powers behaved in an uncharacteristically mature fashion and it felt like a dispiriting admission of failure. Then he behaved like a dangerous, psychotic lunatic and it felt like a roaring, life-affirming success ...

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  • Eastbound and Down: season 1, episode 4

    "Chapter Four"

    March 7, 2009 - 01:03p.m.

     
     
    In tonight’s kick-ass, David Gordon Green-directed episode of Eastbound & Down our intrepid antihero Kenny Powers got exactly what he’s been pining for since returning home in disgrace and it turned to shit before his eyes. The best thing ...

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  • Eastbound and Down: season 16, episode 3

    "Chapter Three"

    February 28, 2009 - 11:02p.m.

     
     
    First off I would like to apologize for the unconscionably late nature of this post. I wasted two hours of my life watching the season premiere of Celebrity Apprentice so I had to catch the 12:30 showing of Eastbound ...

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  • Eastbound and Down: season 1, episode 2

    "Chapter Two"

    February 22, 2009 - 06:02p.m.

     
    As a film critic, part of me thinks the entire world stops for The Oscars, that the sum of the entertainment industry takes a break so that we can all bask in the self-love of pampered millionaires patting each other ...

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  • Eastbound and Down: season 1, episode 1

    "Pilot" 

    February 15, 2009 - 02:02p.m.

    2006’s would-be sleeper hit Foot Fist Way was the sleepily received low-budget independent film that tore our nation apart, pitting brother against brother, waiter against maitre’ d and Phipps against Oswalt. In the great, bloody battle over whether the ...

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