Eastbound & Down S01E01

Fuck you, you piece of shit...

Kenny Powers is a major-league asshole—literally. As the bravura montage that opens the pilot episode of Eastbound and Down (HBO) reveals, he’s a redneck pitcher (think John Rocker with Randy Johnson’s ’do) who hits it big in the bigs and lets it go straight to his head. Inflammatory statements, team hopping, drugs, ’roids, the works, until he finds himself dragging his washed-up ass and his beloved leopard-print jet ski back to his hometown of Shelby, N.C., to move in with his working-stiff brother and take a job as a middle-school phys ed teacher. It’s a premise both jejune (fish-out-of-water moves in with unsuspecting nuclear family, one of the hoariest sitcom set-ups ever) and plain old bizarre (leopard-print jet ski?).

See, Kenny is having a hard time being humbled. He can’t talk to women without either hitting on them or insulting them (or kinda both), and he can’t help but belittle the ordinary life that his brother Dustin (Deadwood’s John Hawkes) troubles to welcome him into. He bumps into sweet, pneumatic high-school girlfriend April (Katy Mixon) and prepares to mack only to discover that she’s engaged to his new boss, nebbish-y Principal Cutler (a spot-on Andrew Daly). The closest thing he can muster for a star entourage is burnout bartender/drug dealer Clegg (Best) and maladjusted band teacher Stevie (Steve Little), and the nearest substitute for the once-unending flow of hot ladies is town skank Tracy, played by the game Sylvia Jefferies.

Indeed, Jefferies, who once installed a pole in her home to train as an exotic dancer for an episode of TV's "One Tree Hill, appears to have the most fun as a regular on the show, which completed its first season of shooting in Wilmington last Autumn. This, after a lengthy hiatus between the pilot and episodes 2-6, necessitated by the increasing demands on series star and co-writer Danny McBride. Jefferies plays a vivacious woman with a mind of her own.

"She's probably who I wish I could be if I didn't have the Southern illness of caring about what people think of me," Jefferies says. "She is a person who always does what she thinks she should. But she's also a fun party girl, with not a lot of responsibilities, and she likes her tequila. Although she likes any man in power, she's very independent and the one who's really in charge of everything.

"I'm very independent myself, but I take things much more seriously than Tracy does. Growing up in the South, you just can't get away with her kind of behavior. Like my father once told me, 'Your reputation is your character minus what you're caught doing.'"


Television Series: Eastbound & Down (S01E01)
Release Date: February 2009
Actress: Sylvia Jefferies
Video Clip Credit: Shiloh
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