Earlier this week, we learned that Eastbound & Downwas getting a fourth season or in a way a second final season. Danny McBride told HitFixwhat the fourth season will focus on:
Something we never really got to explore with the show that we always wanted to was what life would be like once April and Kenny were together. Katy Mixon was on a hit television show, and her schedule with that show didn't really allow her to be involved with the show as much as Jody and I would have loved for her to be. So we came up with solutions to get around that, [...]
Does Jason Sudeikis actually make the layup in the opening credits of SNL? Did he throw baseballs with his non-dominant hand throughout the entire taping of Eastbound & Down? Does he compare doing a guest arc on a TV show to replacing a member of the Foo Fighters?
The biggest thing you take from it is everything they did in the first two seasons, and you just try to harmonize with that. I don’t feel like a solo artist—I feel like, when being asked to play with other people, you want to be like a really good addition. It’s like the Foo Fighters lose a couple of drummers, and [...]
Kenny Powers is back, proudly donning the uniform of the Myrtle Beach Mermen. Also, it seems he has taken up boogie boarding (though still managing to fit in time to give terrible, terrible motivational speeches to children). Eastbound & Down returns to HBO Feb. 19.
On the upcoming final season of Eastbound and Down, MadTV's Ike Barinholtz will be appearing in a five-episode arc (nearly the entire season) as "Ivan, a Russian superstar pitcher whom Kenny tries to take under his wing." I for one am looking forward to seeing a whole new side of Kenny Powers' racism next season when he starts brutally insulting Mother Russia.
I want the people to watch what is going to be consecrated here. And I will bring my son down here, and he will watch Will Ferrell and Matthew McConaughey return for Eastbound and Down's third season. According to The Hollywood Reporter Ferrell's maniacal car salesman Ashley Schaeffer factors into the final season's story arc, as Kenny Powers deals with the pregnancy of special lady friend April Buchanon. McConaughey will guest once again as openly gay talent scout Roy McDaniel, who will in all likelihood continue to suck his dream's cock.
This is a pretty odd turn of events. Eastbound & Downwas given a fourth season from HBO, even though the show seemingly had its series finale in April. Not only that but Danny McBride has always been vocal about the fact that the show was designed to be in three parts. That being said, this is super great news. There will be a lot of questions to answer after that finale, obviously, like: What car is Kenny going to drive?
HBO just announced that Eastbound & Down will begin its third season at 10pm on Feb. 19, and Life's Too Short, the Warwick Davis mockumentary from Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, will follow it at 10:30. Not too shabby, Sunday night lineup!
There is a very fine line between comedy and tragedy. Like sleep and death, laughter and crying are cousins. However, deep sadness isn’t always easy to show in television comedy; there’s only so much a non-sociopathic audience can see one character take before all the pain stops being funny. Sometimes, though, the schadenfreude can’t be resisted. These ten characters have been shit on, humiliated, and abused over and over again, but we can’t stop laughing at them. How else would we be able to tell ourselves it isn’t so bad?
I don't know if Kenny Power's K-Swiss cologne commercials are really the best testament to the scent actually smelling good, unless there's a niche market of men hoping to smell like LA Looks hair gel, Gold Bond powder and fresh ball sweat. Having a tag line like "Let her smell your dick on your neck" seems a little TOO REAL, if you're picking up what I'm putting down. In addition to the three excellent Adam McKay-directed spots, Kenny Powers serves as K-Swiss's CEO in an ad with a little behind-the-scenes with actual athletes, who's clothes will be promptly wrung out into a bucket, mixed into [...]
As the third season of Eastbound & Down started, I knew that this would be the final season, so as the episodes aired, I started coming up with theories on how the show would end. Knowing Jody Hill’s capability of darkness as evidenced by Observe and Report, I figured that one of the most logical endings would be Kenny Powers dying in the series finale. After all the low points he had endured, it would be weird and unfitting to cast aside the attitude built by the show over three seasons and make everything happy again.
The full Eastbound & Down trailer might very well rock your nuts off. Look how spiky Jason Sudeikis' hair is, and how many transportation devices Kenny Powers rides! Boogie board, jet ski, motor scooter, bumper cars, some kind of boat or ferry. All those in one minute. This season is gonna be CRAZY.
I'm pretty sure that's not how they airbrush tank tops, but whatever. I chose this career path and now I just have to deal with the fact that I may never really know the art form as completely as I would like. The Eastbound And Down Season 3 trailer is but the briefest of teasers, but Kenny's voice, beautiful abandoned Myrtle Beach and that woman's eerily prescient lower back tattoo is going to get you amped up anyway.
Eastbound and Down doesn't really feel like a normal TV show. And there's good reason for that! Danny McBride and Jody Hill write the show as if it's a long movie, and from the get-go they knew they wanted three seasons, with each representing an act with its own arc. Their process sounds pretty unique and is definitely fascinating. Here's McBride from a new GQ interview:
From the get go we knew no one was going to greenlight me and Jody to make a fuckin' four-hour movie. So we thought: let's make a TV show and stretch it out. We'd done The Foot Fist Way together, and we [...]
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