Eastbound & Down

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Season 1
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  • 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?

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9.0

Universal acclaim- based on 201 Ratings

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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

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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. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Linda Stasi
    88
    If you thought "Tropic Thunder" was the funniest movie of the year and that everything Will Ferrell touches makes you laugh until you squirt Diet Pepsi out of your nose, then you will love Eastbound & Down.
  3. The New Yorker
    Reviewed by: Nancy Franklin
    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.
  4. 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.
  5. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Ginia Bellafante
    50
    Eastbound & Down feels static.
  6. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Glenn Garvin
    40
    Drugs. Pratfalls. Bodily excretions. Sexual crudity. Shock-jock ethnic humor. Four-letter words flying like lead in a matineee Western. Character development and story? Not so much.
  7. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Tim Goodman
    25
    It seems like a middling Fox series with a monotonous glut of obscenities and some nudity tossed in to make it pay-cable worthy.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 66 out of 71
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 71
  3. Negative: 4 out of 71
  1. TM
    Feb 18, 2009
    10
    I'm watching the premiere for the third time and picking up jokes I must have laughed through the first two times. This show is I'm watching the premiere for the third time and picking up jokes I must have laughed through the first two times. This show is f'ing awesome.… Expand
  2. pnelson2482
    Feb 26, 2011
    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 forThe 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
  4. RahmunC
    Mar 15, 2009
    10
    Best show on television period. I have read some reviews and I believe that people expect too much. Danny McBride is tied to the Judd Apatow Best show on television period. I have read some reviews and I believe that people expect too much. Danny McBride is tied to the Judd Apatow crew of classic comedies/comedians (40 Yr old Virgin, Knocked Up, Superbad) and this show is right in line. It's not about big funny events that make the whole family laugh...it's about the subtleties of the characterful that make it classic. Watch out for Danny McBride, a star on the rise.… Expand
  5. FrancoB
    Apr 17, 2009
    10
    Ferrell/McBride GENIUS!
  6. GeorgeL
    Jul 29, 2009
    10
    Awesome show. Period.
  7. JasonG
    Mar 17, 2009
    9
    I admit, this type of humor isn't for everyone. If you enjoy Will Ferrell's childish cluelessly overconfident act, and enjoyed I admit, this type of humor isn't for everyone. If you enjoy Will Ferrell's childish cluelessly overconfident act, and enjoyed Danny McBride's film The Foot Fist Way, then there is plenty here for you to enjoy. If you find that sort of thing juvenile or played out, then you may want to look away. I for one, though I feel this brand of humor is a bit over done, still found plenty to like.… Expand
  8. RobertT
    Feb 17, 2009
    1
    28 minutes and 50 seconds that I will NEVER get back. Embarrassing to watch. Directly squarely and between the eyes at pre-pubescent boys. 28 minutes and 50 seconds that I will NEVER get back. Embarrassing to watch. Directly squarely and between the eyes at pre-pubescent boys. Image how John Hawkes feels coming from such a quality show as Deadwood and now having to play the older brother in this. Sad!… Expand

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