Kenny Powers has proven time and time again that he’s a self-destructive ego maniac, but this episode takes it to the next level.
After discovering Vida and Sebastian messing around in the recording studio, Kenny ends his Mexican baseball playing days by causing the type of trouble that John Rocker would scoff at. Through all of this, he finds a way of robbing Stevie at any shot of happiness by telling him he needs to stop seeing the Mexican woman he’s sleeping with.
Seeing Stevie find happiness is an interesting moment to say the very least. Even though we’ve seen him with a hooker over the course of the show, you were always made to think he had a crush, an incredibly obsessed one, on Kenny. Now it just seems like he’s an extremely loyal friend, who lacks any common sense. Where their friendship ultimately ends up, as far as Stevie’s relationship, is up in the air.
In spite of all of this, the best moment of this episode is when Kenny and Stevie find the “elusive” Mr. Sanchez, who turns out to not only be the über cool Don Johnson, but also Kenny’s father. With his baseball career over again, it’ll be interesting to see where this new angle sends Kenny and Stevie.
Although this episode was totally over the top and ridiculous, between the sex scenes and Kenny’s ouster from baseball, this show continues to keep throwing curve balls in fast ball counts, continuing to fuel its ever-growing legacy as wild and unpredictable.
Add Johnson into the mix and you have one of the best comedies on TV this fall season.
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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