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Eastbound & Down: The Complete First Season |  | Directors: Adam McKay, David Gordon Green, Jody Hill
Actors: Danny McBride, Katy Mixon, John Hawkes, Andrew Daly, Ben Best
Studio: HBO
Category: DVD
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Rating:  59 reviews
Sales Rank: 166
Format: Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, Closed-captioned, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Discs: 2
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Running Time: 180 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.7
MPN: 883929068272
UPC: 883929068272
EAN: 0883929068272
Theatrical Release Date: 2009
Release Date: June 30, 2009
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Product Description
Washed-out pitcher Kenny Powers moves back in with his family and teaches gym while planning a major league comeback.
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Stepping up to the plate in this six-episode HBO series, comedy's newest It Boy, Danny McBride (The Foot Fist Way, Pineapple Express, Tropic Thunder), hits it out of the park as Kenny Powers, a former baseball phenom, who, after spending his millions and burning all bridges, returns to his high school to teach physical education. The delusional Powers (he still wears a mullet!) insists that he will return to the majors. Until then, he makes a play for his former high school flame (Katy Mixon), now an art teacher who is engaged to the boring, by-the-book principal (Andrew Daly). He runs roughshod over his brother and his disapproving wife (John Hawkes and Jennifer Irwin), who allow Powers to live with them and their children. He lures the idolizing nerdy band teacher to the dark side. Eastbound and Down has an odd sense of humor. To say that the foul-mouthed, substance-abusing Powers is "inappropriate" is an understatement. He makes Billy Bob Thornton's Bad Santa look like Edmund Gwenn in Miracle on 34th Street). When one of his students repeats his father's claim that Powers ruined baseball, Powers tells the class, "Anybody want to pick on anybody in class, aim for him, because I ain't watching." Eastbound and Down benefits from some big league talent. Will Ferrell, who helped get The Foot Fist Way into theatres, appears as a car salesman who wants to exploit what's left of Powers' celebrity with predictably disastrous results. Episodes were directed by McBride collaborator Jody Hill (Observe and Report), David Gordon Green (Superbad), and Ferrell's partner in comedy, Adam McKay (Talladega Nights, Anchorman). There are other obnoxious characters on television, but Kenny Powers is in a league of his own, and he may take some warming up to. But McBride imbues this extreme character with an uncompromised integrity that is oddly admirable. Despite what his brother tells him at one point, Powers is someone you like being around. --Donald Liebenson Stills from Eastbound and Down- The Complete First Season (click for larger image)
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 I loved it but not for Everyone August 18, 2010
Off-beat and Off-color, but I liked the series - and was disappointed that it only had one season. Again, I liked it but it will not be for everyone.
 Kept me laughing ! July 25, 2010
velocity01
If you like comedy you will love this. They never really advertised this very much.
I caught it on one day by accident.
Hilarious July 13, 2010
Ryan Detrick (Cincinnati, OH United States)
Funniest show ever. If you are easily offended, this isn't for you. But if you like to laugh - Kenny Powers is the man for you.
Great show!!! June 2, 2010
Elizabeth Alcala (Fullerton, Ca.)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a great show and it is hilarious! My boyfriend loves this show and dexter. You have to like smart-ass humor and profanity to enjoy this show!
Where did this come from??? May 22, 2010
N. Scott (Wash. D.C.)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I don't know how I missed this show on HBO (maybe because it was only 6 episodes) but I just finished the season and my stomach was in stitches from laughing so hard. I just saw that HBO picked up a 2nd season and I will not miss another episode!
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