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Eastbound & Down

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Generally favorable reviews based on 27 Critics

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Eastbound & Down

Series Details & Credits

HBO | Release Date: February 15, 2009

Starring: Steve Little, Danny R McBride

Summary: Created by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, this half-hour comedy follows a former professional baseball player who returns to his hometown in the South to take a job as a substitute gym teacher.

Genre(s): Comedy

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S4:E8. Chapter 29
Air Date: November 17, 2013
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S4:E7. Chapter 28
Air Date: November 10, 2013
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S4:E6. Chapter 27
Air Date: November 3, 2013

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Metascore

70

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19

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Critic Reviews

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People Weekly

Tom Gliatto

Mar 12, 2012

Season 3 Review: The jokes take of on all sorts of unexpected trajectories--foul balls that score. [12 Mar 2012, p.45]

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Entertainment Weekly

Ken Tucker

Season 2 Review: This portrait of a profane, low-down egomaniac--excuse me, he prefers "Christ figure"--continues to amaze. McBride's willingness to play depression, amorality, and selfishness for laughs is awesome. Read full review

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Under The Radar

Jim Scott

Season 2 Review: It's not going too far to say Eastbound and Down holds a magnifying glass up to sports and hero workship, it's just that the magnifying glass is outrageously outsized, Charlie Chaplin, silent-movie prop huge. Sadly, as far as McBride takes Powers, the satire may never go far enough, as LeBron James and Roger Clemens and Tiger Woods and a host of others have shown. Read full review

75

Chicago Tribune

Maureen Ryan

Season 1 Review: Powers, the central character in the strangely compelling new HBO series Eastbound & Down is a down-on-his-luck pitcher whose glory days in the Major League are well behind him. Read full review

70

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Rob Owen

Season 1 Review: The humor in Eastbound is a far cry from the cerebral comedy currently en vogue on shows like "The Office" and "30 Rock," but that doesn't mean Eastbound can't do sly humor that falls left of center. Read full review

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Los Angeles Times

Robert Lloyd

Season 1 Review: 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. Read full review

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San Francisco Chronicle

Tim Goodman

Season 1 Review: It seems like a middling Fox series with a monotonous glut of obscenities and some nudity tossed in to make it pay-cable worthy. Read full review

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brockcheese

May 24, 2019

Eastbound & Down is a consistently funny show that at times borders on greatness thanks to the beating heart within.

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 4

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  Air Date: September 29, 2013
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  S4:E8. Chapter 29
  Air Date: November 17, 2013
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  S4:E7. Chapter 28
  Air Date: November 10, 2013
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  S4:E6. Chapter 27
  Air Date: November 3, 2013
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  S4:E5. Chapter 26
  Air Date: October 27, 2013
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  S4:E4. Chapter 25
  Air Date: October 20, 2013
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  S4:E3. Chapter 24
  Air Date: October 13, 2013
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  S4:E2. Chapter 23
  Air Date: October 6, 2013
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  S4:E1. Chapter 22
  Air Date: September 29, 2013
Season 3

85
- Season 3 Overview
  Air Date: February 19, 2012
Season 2

89
- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: September 26, 2010
Season 1

61
- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: February 15, 2009