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Information
- Year
- 2009
- Runtime
- 28 min.
- Director
- -
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy, Sport
- Rating *
- 8.3
- Votes *
- 36,084
- Checks
- 811
- Favs
- 87
- Dislikes
- 10
- Favs/checks
- 10.7% (1:9)
- Favs/dislikes
- 9:1
Top comments
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palefire
I watched this after working my way through the James Franco, Seth Rogan, Danny McBride collaborations. It puts the McBride character in This Is The End in perspective, as this TV series is surely that character's origin story. McBride plays a profoundly narcissistic and grandiose character, Kenny Powers, that works as a comedic character in the same way as Borat did- an obscene and bigoted protagonist evoking feelings of schadenfreude due to the even more obscene tolerance and behaviours of the characters playing normal, everyday, trusting, working class Americans. The first three seasons see Kenny Powers remain a relatively one-dimensional redneck baseball pitcher leading a trail of destruction. Just when I thought I would be sick of Kenny Fucking Powers, things then developed exponentially in season four, with a fantastic ending resembling the rich epilogues of 25th Hour and La La Land. Overall, this is an excellent TV comedy series with a lot of laughs and provides a snapshot into the mind of a very specific kind of person, probably a criminal, that I think would exist somewhere in society. 6 years 10 months ago -
