The fourth season begins again with a wide range of sports and comedy events. Since his career as a professional baseball professional, Kenny has begun to seek fame as a professional sports commentator. His way to this comes from his former colleague Guy Young, who invites Kenny to be a guest in his talk show. The first attempt failed miserably while he almost laughed from the stage. Kenny knows that there is only one person who can help him - Steve, who meets with him, and helps Steve Kenny throw trash lecturers on Jay's program
"Chapter 22" might strip too much self-respect away from Kenny, but it leads to a thrilling climax when his true nature returns, and sets up an exciting new season while also wrapping up the loose ends of season three.
McBride and Hill didn't bring Kenny back just to squeeze a few more cheap laughs out of him. There are cheap laughs, of course, but a downbeat mood of disillusion and frustration permeates.
Even when the show is funny and outrageous...there are things going on under the surface that are very real and very difficult, and that's what continues to make Eastbound and Down such an impressive surprise each week.
In its way, over the years, behind all the crude turns and vulgar behavior, had a sweetness to it, an earnest, simple-minded optimism that made it strangely akin to that other slightly twisted HBO comedy on modern struggle and advancement, "Enlightened.
No recent television show has toggled so violently between brilliant and execrable as Eastbound, which at its heart is about pieties and their uselessness.
I regret thinking that it was pointless to bring the show back after the seeming finality of its third season, because the evolution of media star Kenny was the best thing the show had done.
