Kenny Powers is cruder and dumber than all Three Stooges, more uproariously irreverent than the whole South Park Gang, and more sexually out of control than Kid Rock, Howard Stern, and Hugh Hefner combined.
But that's not the only reason why this outlaw HBO Series is so meaningful and profoundly stirring. It's about a man, or rather a legend, a super man, who has more natural, God-given talents (on and off the baseball diamond) than anyone else in his community, or indeed anyone else on earth. And it's about how even when society betrays him, and refuses to show him respect, and refuses to allow him to be the person he was meant to be, he never once gives in. He never compromises. He continues to be Kenny Powers, the hero that he believes in. This man is as pure in his anarchic fury as Alex in A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, even if he is (generally) a less violent egomaniac.
Kenny Powers lives the dream. Kenny powers IS the dream.
And there's a little Stevie in all of us.
But that's not the only reason why this outlaw HBO Series is so meaningful and profoundly stirring. It's about a man, or rather a legend, a super man, who has more natural, God-given talents (on and off the baseball diamond) than anyone else in his community, or indeed anyone else on earth. And it's about how even when society betrays him, and refuses to show him respect, and refuses to allow him to be the person he was meant to be, he never once gives in. He never compromises. He continues to be Kenny Powers, the hero that he believes in. This man is as pure in his anarchic fury as Alex in A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, even if he is (generally) a less violent egomaniac.
Kenny Powers lives the dream. Kenny powers IS the dream.
And there's a little Stevie in all of us.
