Eastbound And Down: Shit Just Got Real
Eastbound and Down, the best fucking show on television, is now four episodes deep into a six episode season. Last night's episode was the first sequential episode to start with a stand alone scene, rather than picking up right where the previous week had left off, which does give me hope that this isn't just an incredible mini-series but could potentially be spun out into at least a few more episodes. Maybe one more season? I am a strong supporter of the short-run project. Two seasons and out. 12 episodes and we're done. That's one of the reasons that the current season (minus the incredible Super Bowl episode) of the American The Office is so disappointing. We were done two years ago. Whoops, no one told them. Leave the audience wanting more, or whatever. But not THAT MUCH more. Don't leave us wanting so much more that we want to die. Because that's what will happen if this show ends with finality in two weeks. Crazy mass suicides all over the place. It will be like the opening scene in The Happening. We'll all get together at Central Park to read our romance novels with our friends at 8:30 in the morning, just like we always do (because of what a normal thing that is, and just one more Signs of how that movie was so good), but this time we'll put sewing needles in our necks.
But man oh man. Last night's episode was so intense. The show has definitely moved well beyond the dip-spitting boner jokez into the cringe comedy of genuine human suffering. Not that there aren't plenty of dip-spitting boner jokez to be had, but the reality of Kenny Powers fall is starting to take painful shape. It's an exquisite portrait of abject humiliation. This show is high art. They should hang it up in a museum. I am serious.
If you guys aren't watching this show, you really should. Go to jail, that is. You really should go to jail. You messed up. Pay the price.
Posted by Gabe at 12:45 PM in Love-Watching
Tags: Danny McBride | Eastbound And Down
Finally...someone knew how to appropriately use the overplayed "Sound of Silence" this weekend...
Score = 3
I normally don't like being reminded of painful situations, but I made an exception with that song last night.
P.S. Supposedly that Visionary director supervised his own soundtrack? Does it show?
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Yup. It's the collective groan heard after the use of KC & the Sunshine Band's "I'm Your Boogie Man" at a riot and the painful "no they didn't" 'ugh' after the sound of "Ride of the Valkyries" cued a giant Dr. Manhattan in Vietnam...and of course the infamous Leonard Cohen song scene...ugh
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That was the best clip I've seen of this show yet. You've inspired me to actually watch, Gabe.
"It's a day!"
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This show needs Emmys.
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Yeah, at some point a pathetic figure who still treats everyone around him like shit, and is beginning to realize it, just isn't all that funny anymore. Not that the show isn't still funny. But it's becoming a dramedy, which isn't a bad thing.
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What I appreciate most is that so far it's the complete anti- to the Entourage guys succeeding in every episode and always ending up on top. So far, Kenny Powers just keeps falling further and further. Thank You, HBO.
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wow that was a great episode of television right there, anyone catch devendra banharts " if feel just like a child"? amazing, you right with the office going downhill but its still so much better than anything else on tv. best hour of television = Flight of the conchords + East bound and down.
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This show will find a way to get better than it should, much like it did last night.
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I had no idea this season was only going to be six episodes, and that is terrible news, seeing as its been so good. I completely agree that many shows over stay their welcome on tv, but I definitely want to see more of this one.
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The Office is still better than 30 Rock.
Score = -9
Kenny Powers is in. You fags at Videogum are out.
Score = 12
Aren't you missing a key expletive in those statements?
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Pity is only intensified when you realize he has dried sperm on his left pant-leg.
Score = 2
OK, ok, after watching this clip I'm sold... downloading all 4 episodes as I type. Videogum+hulu+torrents are making my tv obsolete (and my brain into mush). Thanks internet!
Score = -1