Glen Powell's Chad Powers is here and we don't care for it one bit
Glen Powell knows he's a movie star now, right? Someone should possibly check.
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Six months ago, we heard some TV news that we were extremely comfortable labeling, at the time, as one of the single worst ideas we’d ever heard: Glen Powell, ascendant heartthrob, had signed on to star in Chad Powers, a TV show based on this one time that NFL star Eli Manning put on a ton of prosthetics, adopted a terrible Matthew McConaughey accent, and baffled some poor college football hopefuls with some of the worst improv comedy ever perpetrated by man. At the time, we reflected to ourselves that expanding “Chad Powers”—who appeared in a single episode of Manning’s ESPN+ streaming show, and in our nightmares about two nights out of every week since—out into a full TV show was not just a waste of Powell’s talents, but also every single other human being bending their efforts to putting such a show into production at Hulu’s behest.