A sports comedy born from a short à la Ted Lasso, and with a story that used to be fit for a 95-minute theatrical film but has been stretched to fill out a multi-season TV series à la Stick, Chad Powers is an amiable affair that’s never actually funny.
That’s no fault of Glen Powell, who’s goofily charming as a football has-been intent on pulling a fast one on the country in order to return to the field. Yet it’s nonetheless a severe shortcoming of this six-part Hulu show, premiering Sept. 30, which fails to decide if it wants to be ribald or saccharine and winds up settling for somewhere in the milquetoast middle.
<video id="dMzDGbFc" poster="https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/dMzDGbFc/poster.jpg"><source src="https://cdn.jwplayer.com/videos/dMzDGbFc.mp4" type="video/mp4"></source></video>The post Glen Powell Is a Has-Been Football Star in TV’s Next ‘Ted Lasso’ appeared first on The Daily Beast