Eastbound & Down on HBO

First two episodes have been quite a disappointment. Hopefully it gets better because I was really looking forward to a new season after catching on the last season halfway through.

 

The whole Will Ferrell/Ashley Schaffer/Ric Flair thing was funny in season one. Now it's gone, well, I really don't know how to describe it. Just bad, I guess.

 

They should have scrapped the baby storyline and went right into this season with this Russian one. Much better than the crap from the last episode.

 

Good thing this is the last season, because it's almost unwatchable. I'm a glutton for punishment and stick with shows long past their point of becoming stale.

 

Anybody still watching this show? I'm at a point now where I can't wait for the series to end. Last night's episode was, as most of them this season, terrible. They try to shock it back to life with guest stars -- a dying show's final, desperate act -- but the writing is so god-awful and unfunny that it's occasionally painful.

So why don't I just not watch? I have no idea. Partly because I keep thinking it can't keep being one of the most disappointing shows I've ever seen, and partly because they're all short seasons and I feel invested in the series. Thankfully each episode is only 30 minutes.

 

Pretty much my sentiments, too. Knowing that this is the last season I guess I'll slog it out.

1. You don't pass South of the Border to get to Myrtle Beach from Mexico but was funny to see it in there.
2. Shane's birth date on his tombstone was mine. I'm glad the death date is past and I'm still here!

 

I think the show, no matter what, was going to have trouble living up to anything beyond the first season. With that said, I think we are all expecting it to be what it was in Season I, but the show has evolved from being strictly comedy to more of a drama (a poorly done one much of this season).

 

If they would've ended the series after season one, it would've been remembered as something like an unrealized classic.

Now that it has been stretched over two more laugh-free seasons, it will be remembered as little more than a steaming pile of dog scat.

 

I'm sorry, but Season 1 sucked nearly as bad as Seasons 2 and 3.

 

Exactly. I loved season 1. The last two weren't nearly as good, but it's done enough to keep me watching.

 

I know I'm not watching high art, but for some reason I find stuff like Kenny coming out to pitch to Hulk Hogan's theme song and his monologue about being a raging Christ figure funny enough I keep watching. I'm immature and I like politically incorrect humor, so the show makes me laugh usually a couple of times an episode, and that's all I ask of it.

 

This last one was ROUGH.

I can't really find a time in the last episode where I really laughed more than a snicker, although it did get a couple of "Aww, God Dammit"s from me.

Although I did, admittedly, like the Red Choir as the Russian pitcher's walk-in music. This is where my standards lie. Sad, sad state of affairs.