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Eastbound & Down: Season 1
  • Network: HBO
  • Series Premiere Date: Feb 15, 2009
  • Season #: 1 , 2 , 3
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Metascore
62 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 16 Critics What's this?

User Score
9.0 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 165 Ratings

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10 out of 10
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  • 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, Sports

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 16
  3. Negative: 3 out of 16
  1. Entertainment Weekly
    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. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Robert Lloyd
    60
    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.
  3. Variety
    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: 62 out of 67
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 67
  3. Negative: 4 out of 67
  1. pnelson2482
    10
    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
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  2. CoreyH
    5
    A pretty funny show in my books but 6 episodes in the first season? That's not worth the price tag they put on it.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. 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.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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