Eastbound & Down: The Complete Fourth & Final Season

This HBO comedy starring Danny McBride as Kenny Powers—the biggest jerk (with the most unjustified ego) in professional baseball—jumps ahead a few years in this fourth season, finding Kenny in the roles of suburban husband, father of two, and civilian working at a car rental agency. A chance meeting with former-teammate-turned-TV-sports-celebrity Guy Young (Ken Marino) sends Kenny back to his debauched, viciously competitive ways as he embraces life as a cable TV personality—which, of course, takes its toll on wife April (Katy Mixon), sycophantic sidekick Stevie (Steve Little), and everyone else (Sacha Baron Cohen guest stars as the amoral head of the cable network in the final segment). A rude show about a shallow, self-involved, oblivious character who constantly follows his worst instincts (which he then justifies with a sense of entitlement), Eastbound & Down builds humor around Kenny's insensitive remarks and assumptions, especially when it comes to race and sex—making him a natural for his TV sports talk show, which thrives on conflict and humiliation. The result is a high-energy and often very funny mix of social satire and lowbrow humor, with plenty of nudity, foul language, drug consumption, and bad behavior in general. Presenting all eight episodes from the 2013 final season, extras include episode commentaries, deleted scenes, and outtakes. Sure to appeal to its small but passionate cult following, this is recommended. (S. Axmaker)