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Eastbound & Down - On DemandSeptember 28, 2010

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On Demand Weekly provides new movie reviews of hot movies on demand from the POV of watching from the comfort of your home. Today’s review:“Eastbound & Down.” If you were wondering who was starring in the K-Swiss commercials with NFL players, it's none other than "Eastbound & Down's" Kenny @#$! Powers...
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Mothers, hide your daughters. Kenny Freakin’ Powers is back and that can only mean trouble and some gargantuan guffaws.

The delusional, pompous, abrasive, MLB reject has high-tailed it south of the border where he is living la vida loca. In the season two premiere of “Eastbound & Down,” Powers (Danny McBride) has exiled himself to Mexico. Kenny’s a moped-riding outlaw in his own mind. The mullet is gone. He’s using an alias, he’s got cornrows, he’s packin’ heat and he’s a cockfighter.

When Kenny’s not butchering the Spanish language, he’s training his cocks and writing his ego-infused “motivational novel for people to deal with grief and/or depression.” His nights are full of sex, drugs and rock-n-roll.

Kenny Powers / Eastbound & Down (HBO)

He may be trying to run away from the pain and sorrow baseball has caused him, but for Kenny there’s no escape. Actually, there’s no letting go. America’s pastime still has its claws deep in his twisted psyche.

When his Mexican sidekick, Aaron, tells him he doesn’t belong there, Kenny races his moped out to the local ballpark and onto the field during practice. There, he gets a chance to use the pitcher’s mound as his soapbox. Kenny’s self-aggrandizing pontification is pure pompous Powers.

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If you were still watching by the end of season one you undoubtedly found a place in your heart for Kenny, but more likely, he managed to burrow under your skin like a terminal case of scabies. Perhaps it’s the indignities he suffers at his own hand that musters our sympathy. Or maybe it’s just his lunacy making us laugh our asses off. But if the premiere is any indication, season two will deliver.

Eastbound & Down (HBO)

Also premiering, Season 2 of “Bored To Death”:

He might not be Inspector Clouseau, but in the season premiere of “Bored To Death” the bumbling private eye novelist Jonathan Ames (Jason Schwartzman) gets himself into a hilarious slapstick predicament that involves an S&M dungeon, a full body leather suit with a locked-in hood and a horse.

Bored To Death (HBO)

The writers seem to have kicked the mayhem up a notch with the best punch lines belonging to George (Ted Danson) and Ray (Zach Galifianakis). As always the show sounds and looks great. Until “Treme” returns, “Bored To Death” will have the best soundtrack on TV.

- John Werner

John Werner is a screenwriter who has written several action flicks for SY FY Channel. He also directs, produces and edits documentaries and TV specials.