Eastbound & Down
Every kid has a baseball player to look up to. Kenny Powers is not that guy.
Created by Danny McBride, Jody Hill, Ben Best
On HBO
A darkly comic character study of a delusional, self-sabotaging former athlete confronting his own failure and arrested development in his hometown.
Years after he turned his back on his hometown, a burned-out major league ballplayer returns to teach phys ed at his old middle school.
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