eastbound & down/danny mcbride

dagwood is kinda mad men-esque

haha

dag men

i watched a couple more of these and my opinion has soured. it's really just incredibly thinly written. if there's a plot point or a character is struggling with something, well, you can bet the writers are going to hammer-drill it into your brain about 5000 times in time-honored apatow/snl fashion. at first i was like "wow gina gershon, awesome!" and then what happens with her? nothing. and kenny's "fuck buddy" - the writers don't allow her any reality, they just rub her nose in how awful she's supposed to be. it's like some kind of iron man competition to see who's capable of rising above the shitty material to actually seem real.

pineapple express would have been a failure without his presence

― cutty, Thursday, September 24, 2009 11:41 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

but whatever, danny mcbride is awesome and hallelujah for this showcase for him.

xpost heh yep

also hallelejuah for a show with at least a couple of real southern accents.

that does not include farrell's. jesus christ, he veers between black southhern preacher, white alabama and some other shit.

i don't know how fair it is to expect a show to get into really deep character development in six half-hour episodes and still have like jokes and a plot as well

tracer wants more development of herpes girl!

honestly, if you read through the thread, i was ambivalent about this show around episode 3, but a true believer by the end of episode 6.

when's the next series start?

dude the entire show is hopelessly about 'character development'.

not than an accent has anything to do with that. I just wanted to bash ferrell, really.

yeah what cutty said. if u read the thread most people went from slightly ehhh to fully omg with this.

ferrell is weirdly off in his first appearance tho, yup.

Tracer Hand otm about everything

"you look like a retarded michael myers"

hay tracer hav u seen ep 5 - cause if not WATCH IT and report back

^^^^^ yes.

... dr cock'n'balls.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf9j4QnVK-s

how shitty would this show be if we had like... seen his fuck buddy's childhood

pretty much every character in this show changes in some significant way and reveals more of themselves than you see at first... tracer hand what are you talking about

even his disapproving sister-in-law is given way more depth and way more to do than most comedies would allow that kind of character

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRAugLwSQNI

s1ocki i'm not talking about some cliche hack move to show "depth" i would just like to have stayed with gina gershon and the beguiling class friction that was developing between the powers bros and her instead of racing off to a "pitch off" (nb. a term i have never heard but wouldn't that be a battle between pitchers?). likewise i would have liked to see fuckbuddy put kenny in his place once or twice, or least be allowed to be funny. likewise has it not occurred to anyone in the writing team that stalking your large betitted high school sweetheart is about 1% sweet and about 99% lame as all hell? oh i know i know - our hero is the man child and his myopic whims must be nurtured as a virgin lily. whatever. i wonder if will ferrell's got a script lined up about an aging comic whose schtick has gotten so tired after repeating himself too often that he starts pitching tv series which are just padded season-long versions of his movies but they don't get renewed... and then... he comes back... to prove to himself if to no one else... that he still has what it takes...

i would agree that basically every character besides kenny & the schoolteacher is underwritten and not terribly funny

if no one said that then i would agree with my own brain

oh i did like the principal actually, there was something extra about him. something weird. he never gets offended by anything but sometimes he lays down the law in a way that even kenny respects.

xpost haha

"large betitted"!

the fuckbuddy character has plenty of funny moments - you really wanted to see her stand up to kenny and tell him what's what?!

likewise has it not occurred to anyone in the writing team that stalking your large betitted high school sweetheart is about 1% sweet and about 99% lame as all hell?

it's... supposed to be... pretty lame.

there were a few things about the show that didn't sit real well with me.

like, i don't mind if the characters have some backwards ideas about sexual relations - they weren't supposed to be enlightened individuals in any way, but the way the camera lingered on her melons throughout the show - even when he first started trying to get her back and was kind of creepy and aggressive about it - convinced me that the writers were just as complicate as the characters, and that I as a viewer was supposed to be, too. no reason was ever really given for why he liked her except that he lusted for her body, so it rang kind of false when he suddenly cared so much for her toward the end. kind of undermined that whole aspect of the show.

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the other thing that bugged me, and i am probably totally over-analyzing it, was that the only non-white character to get any kind of significant screen time was the black baseball player, played by the always awesome Craig Robinson, who ends up an antagonist who gets sonned in the worst kind of way. What a waste of a funny actor, too. When they first introduced him, I was really hoping he would end up one of Powers' fuck-up friends.

that would be 'complicit', sorry.

i liked the show a lot, i just thought those things could have been done better. those things and Ferrell, who will hopefully be too busy working on a new shitty movie to chew up any more scenery in the next season.

sorry dudes but melissa already did this schtick about 1,000 times more annoyingly on the mad men thread, you're always going to be a b- at best so you might as well give it up

I thought the fuck buddy was pretty hysterical nad wished there was more of her tbh.

the scene where powers first notices his old flame and the camera zooms in not on her face but her tits is comedy genius you rubes

yeah they make sure you know kenny's a bonehead but i don't see any signals that his thing for her is supposed to be lame. or that she's supposed to be lame which she pretty much is. i mean the show's 100% invested in kenny's thing for this DRIP.

signals like sad trombone sound effects kinda thing?

well i don't know - how did YOU figure out that "it's... supposed to be... pretty lame"?

cos all the ppl are lame?

this show is basically just danny mcbride saying funny stuff

i don't even know how to begin to answer that xp

i honestly don't think i even understand your criticism. you want the show to not only portray sad sack characters but also somehow underline how lame they are?

i'm just sick of every wedding crashers/whatever modern bromatic comedy plot where the hero's unquenchable love for the already-taken lady is some inviolate truth in the middle of everything regardless of how certifiably lame the girl in question is. it would be instantly five thousand percent better to have april at least be sort of a ditz. or have a personality at all actually!

it would also be five thousand percent better if she had awesome, fridge-rattling sex with the principal.

fridge rattling sex

have you finished the series yet btw?

yep! it was shorter than inglourious basterds.

hahaha

if you include buying the popcorn

Jody Hill really is not shit without the incredible Danny McBride, I don't know why the assertion that this show is kind of halfassed on paper should provoke "uh the name of the show is Mad Men not Black in America pt. 2 with Soledad O'Brien" criticisms