Father Like Son

After a season and a half of wondering, it looks like Kenny Powers got his ability at tossing the lies around from his father.

A brief, yet interesting exchange at the beginning of the latest episode of “Eastbound and Down” proves this as “Eduardo Sanchez,” played by the always cool Don Johnson, has no problem making a fantasy land to live in.

Sounds familiar doesn’t it?

A bit better at concealing the truth than his son, Sanchez seemingly has it made, living in a Mexican Mansion, while running his own business and caring to his seemingly autistic son and spicy cougar of a wife. However, just like his son, the wheels of his deceit fall off the car halfway through and Kenny realizes his father is probably worse off than he currently is.

At the same time, Stevie is trying to keep his relationship with his Mexican flame together while keeping her updated via cell phone. Their conversation, albeit short is perhaps the funniest moment of the episode, as Stevie continues to prove that his presence on the show is needed nearly just as much as Kenny’s.

Lets face it. As hilarious as Danny McBride is as Powers, he needs someone else on-screen to even everything out. Having someone like Stevie [Steve Little] being so supportive of his schemes gives him some validity. Otherwise, he’d just be some retard running around doing whatever he wants, because he wants. It would still be funny, but the dichotomy of the show would be much different.

In the end, that’s the exact reason why Johnson’s character ends up not being as cool as Kenny and why this episode works. All he has is a son who blindly follows him around, while Kenny at least has one person who believes in his vision.

Where this vision will ultimately take him remains unseen, but even a blind man knows that Stevie will be close behind.

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About Patrick Hickey Jr. 14230 Articles
Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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