When it is on: Sunday, 9:30pm on HBO

Thoughts going into: Its gonna be another HBO comedy HIT. Currently, LOVE every comedy they put out once they realized Tracy Ullman is NOT, and has NEVER BEEN funny.

What is it: A baseball player, Kenny Powers (Danny McBride) is kicked out of Major League Baseball for womanizing, drug abuse, and lack of performance. He is forced to move in with his brother and family in North Carolina, where he substitute Teaches.

Episode Reviewed: “Episode 1”
In this episode, a brief montage goes through Kenny’s baseball career, both highlights and low lights, until he returns to his home town to live with his brother. To find work, he goes to his former High School to substitute teach PE. When the PE teacher suddenly dies, the job is offered to him. Among the many plot foreshadowing that takes place in this episode, Powers reuniting with his H.S. sweetheart April Buchanon (Katy Mixon) who coincidentally works there too, but is engaged to the squirmy principal, seems to be the
driving force for future episodes.

Memorable Quote: After a kid brought up his old teachers rehab after a shoulder injury)

Kenny Powers: “Yeah, I went to rehab too after my nose got hurt”

What works: Danny McBrides portrayal of Kenny Powers. Despite BeeDubs positive review of “Pinneapple Express”, I thought the movie sucked balls other than McBrides character “Red”. Now if he can carry an Entire movie that NOT FUNNY Seth Rogan tries to turn into a TURD with his expected POOR acting ability, then you can imagine how much potential this show has with McBride at the helm.

What doesn’t work: There really isn’t that much that I can criticize about this show. The flow, character relationships, and writing seem to be WAY ahead of an Episode 1. But if I had to pick one thing, I think the Principals role is going to get extremely OLD. Oh, and the vulgarity makes this show unsuitable for children, no matter how bad of a parent you are.

Sas Appeal
(max 5)
This show started out as a FORSURE 5 Sasser with references during the opening montage of “Jew-York” and “Black San Francisco Fag” criticisms, not to mention obsessive drug use, gang beatings of retarded neighbor children stories, a hint that Will Ferrell would be appearing is future episodes, and people falling over ALL OVER THE PLACE! Sadly, the last person to fall down was a topless prostitute on the back of Kenny’s jet-ski, strongly going against Sas’s conservative family values, and costing the show a full Sas.

Would I watch it again?DAMN RIGHT. This is more than likely my new favorite show on television. I immediately set this up on DVR, and I HOPE to god that they have this locked in for like 13 episodes AT LEAST.

–AFB