Nov 17 2013
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As even Kenny Powers would have to admit, endings aren't easy. Having finally relented and allowed Stevie to read…
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Nov 10 2013
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What does Eastbound & Down have in common with Breaking Bad? In each case, it seems the show’s creators have used…
Nov 3 2013
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Oct 27 2013
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Only on Eastbound & Down could the image of a chubby man with a curly mullet spinning through the air on a water…
Oct 20 2013
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The Kenny Powers redemption arc is tracing a whiplash pattern in this final season of Eastbound & Down. Every time…
Oct 13 2013
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Kenny Powers handles his newfound television stardom about as well as most of us probably expected in the strangest…
Oct 6 2013
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“My entire fuckin’ mystique is all but faded.”
Sep 29 2013
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Well, this is awkward.
Sep 25 2013
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Since 2007, TV Club has dissected television episode by episode. Beginning this September, The A.V. Club will also…
Apr 16 2012
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Television can be an awfully ephemeral medium. Television shows and characters can change radically from week to…
Apr 8 2012
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I am not generally in the business of giving negative reviews to Eastbound & Down, a show that runs the gamut from…
Mar 25 2012
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“Chapter 19” is about as sentimental and family-centered as Eastbound & Down gets, but goddamned if the show doesn’t…
Mar 18 2012
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The last episode of Eastbound & Down was so unrelentingly bleak and uncompromising that whatever followed it had to…
Mar 11 2012
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Well, that was a little on the bleak side. Eastbound & Down has a way of punishing us for liking Kenny Powers by…
Mar 4 2012
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The world looks a whole lot more exciting when seen through Kenny Powers’ eyes. Along with his preternatural gift…
Feb 26 2012
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Will Ferrell is both one of the funniest dudes alive and a comedy-savvy producer and kingmaker who played a huge…
Feb 19 2012
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Eastbound & Down is so outrageously funny and flashy that it can be easy to forget how fundamentally sad it is at…
Nov 8 2010
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At the end of Eastbound & Down’s first season I was torn between wanting the show to end on a perfect note of…
Nov 1 2010
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(So this piece assumes this week is the finale, due to bad information. Actually, the finale airs next week, but…
Oct 24 2010
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Last week we got to see Kenny Powers at his very worst. This was in sharp contrast to his default state of mere…