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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.

  • 2009
  • TV-MA
  • HBO
  • 2009
  • TV-MA
  • HBO

Eastbound & Down

Season 1 Premiere: Feb 15, 2009
Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 27 Critic Reviews
70
User Score Universal Acclaim Based on 217 User Ratings
8.2
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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.

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 27 Critic Reviews
70
70% Positive
19 Reviews
19% Mixed
5 Reviews
11% Negative
3 Reviews

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 27 Critic Reviews
70
70% Positive
19 Reviews
19% Mixed
5 Reviews
11% Negative
3 Reviews

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100
Mar 12, 2012
The jokes take of on all sorts of unexpected trajectories--foul balls that score. [12 Mar 2012, p.45]
By Tom Gliatto FULL REVIEW
91
What lifts Eastbound & Down away from mere crudball humor is McBride's ongoing love affair with the lower middle class.
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80
Feb 21, 2012
McBride celebrates the Southern-fried dirtball culture of flyover America like some "Red State Diaries"; it's a veritable HBO "Hee-Haw."
By Roger Catlin FULL REVIEW
75
I tend to judge a show's worth on whether I'll come back for more; I've already watched next week's episode of "Eastbound and Down," and I'll definitely be watching to see where Kenny's Mexican journey takes him.
By Michael Starr FULL REVIEW
63
Sep 26, 2013
Strangely, the fourth season of Eastbound & Down exudes a somber tone that flies in the face of the show's typically rambunctious tendencies. Kenny is crankier than in the past, and his staunchly vexed attitude throws the proceedings a bit off balance.
By Mike Lechevallier FULL REVIEW
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.
By Glenn Garvin FULL REVIEW
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.
By Tim Goodman FULL REVIEW

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Universal Acclaim Based on 217 User Ratings
8.2
89% Positive
193 Ratings
7% Mixed
16 Ratings
4% Negative
8 Ratings

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Universal Acclaim Based on 217 User Ratings
8.2
89% Positive
193 Ratings
7% Mixed
16 Ratings
4% Negative
8 Ratings

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Production Company:
  • Enemy MIGs Productions
  • Gary Sanchez Productions
  • Home Box Office (HBO)
  • Rough House Pictures
Initial Release Date: Feb 15, 2009
Number of seasons: 4 Seasons
Rating: TV-MA
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Awards

Satellite Awards
• 2 Nominations
Writers Guild of America, USA
• 1 Nomination
Casting Society of America, USA
• 1 Nomination

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