• Network: HBO
  • Series Premiere Date: Feb 15, 2009
  • Season #: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 16 Critics What's this?

User Score

Universal acclaim- based on 175 Ratings

  • Summary: Will Ferrell coproduces this comedy about a baseball player returning to North Carolina who finds a job as a gym teacher.
  • Genre(s): Comedy
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 16
  2. Negative: 3 out of 16
  1. Reviewed by: Ken Tucker
    91
    What lifts Eastbound & Down away from mere crudball humor is McBride's ongoing love affair with the lower middle class.
  2. 80
    McBride is comfortable improvising, and in Eastbound there’s a lot of pleasurable tension in watching Kenny create difficult situations with his poor judgment and get out of them with his escape artist’s quick brain.
  3. I can't say the pilot struck me as especially funny, but there are good things and talented people in it, and it looks good.
  4. Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    30
    Even with the promise of a Ferrell cameo in future episodes, it's a tired premise--a more profane version of the kind of low-swinging sitcom that could easily have wound up on TBS.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 63 out of 68
  2. Negative: 4 out of 68
  1. The best crude sports fan humor put together in my time. Slapshot for hockey is a given, but now Danny McBride gives Charlie Sheen a run for his money!!! My favorite HBO comedy yet. Expand
  2. Maybe it doesn't work out so well between the pilot and episode 4, but's still goddamn funny. I can't imagine another Tv show on that's as profanely hilarious as this. Expand
  3. 7
    Funny if you like obscenities. Funny if you like obscenities. Funny if you like obscenities. Funny if you like obscenities. Funny if you like obscenities. Expand
  4. KenD
    2
    Dude, this show is off-its-Rocker. Obscenity pinch hits for imagination and strikes out for those who love baseball and HBO experimentation.

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