Hold on to your dicks because in less than a month’s time Kenny Powers - the Shelby sensation, the reverse Apache master, the man with the golden dick - will return in the second series of the grand slam sitcom Eastbound & Down.
Anyone who hasn’t seen the first season of HBO’s Eastbound & Down needs to take a long hard look in the motherfuckin’ mirror and ask themselves why they suck so hard. Staring Danny McBride and co-created by Jody Hill (the guy who directed Observe And Report - a film that is collectively know as being ‘not as good as Paul Blart Mall Cop‘) Eastbound & Down is the thing that will make you love fall back in love with the brash arrogance of America and forgive Will Ferrell for decades of sub-Saturday Night Live, self-satisfied, overacting nonsense.
Instead of trying to sum up the plot or express how fucking awesome this show is in my own inadequate words, I’m just going to shove you in the direction of the flawless opening set-piece from season 1. If you don’t recognise it as genius then I just fucking give up.
But this isn’t a post about nostalgia and Kenny Powers isn’t a man content to rest on his laurels - he probably doesn’t even know what laurels fucking are. It’s time to look ahead in anticipation for season 2 and the new dawn of Kenny Powers.
The first clues came a few months back when this very teasy teaser trailer was released…
Kenny Powers devotees will notice that this contains no new material but is just a compilations of phrases and saying from season 1 with a logo for season 2 tagged on the end - lame! What followed a couple of weeks later was this short clip containing some actual new footage!
However, again you can’t glean too much from this. Cue a quick google search which revealed the following:
The new series will be set in Mexico. After failing to land a spot on a big league team and after ditching the buxom April at a Gas station, Kenny heads south of the border to regroup and get his shit together. While there I predict he will have all sorts of comic misadventures with hilarious consequences, some of which may or may not involved baseball. Word is that the cast for season 2 will be almost entirely new, with this guy and this mega babe being the principal new recruits. Although, fans of Stevie Janowski will be please to hear that the ex-music teacher does manage to track Kenny down and join him in Mexico.
A new series also means that the Eastbound & Down promo machine has switched up into high gear, spoiling fans with some added extras like Kenny’s partnership with crap athletic trainer brand K-Swiss, which I assume is bigger in America than it is over here. First off was this video on Funny Or Die of Kenny landing the lucrative K-Swiss contract…
Then came the actual campaign on the K-Swiss website, with TV spots to run in the US.
The second coming of Kenny Powers will be at Easter but on September 26th 2010 - this is a Jesus comparison that Kenny would be wholly comfortable with. Although all you lucky American fucks get to watch it live on HBO, the rest of us will have to be content with downloading the torrent and watching it on our laptops a couple of days after. Although, I have a special cable that links my laptop to my TV, so fuck y’all.
Peace out.