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LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL

February 16, 2012 - 2:03 am

Some things are inevitable.

Death. Taxes. Adele's big Grammy night leading to six more weeks of hearing "Rolling in the Deep."

Likewise, Kenny Powers' (Danny McBride) arrival in Myrtle Beach, S.C. -- following last season's Mexican siesta on "Eastbound & Down" (10 p.m. Sunday, HBO) -- feels less like a minor league pitching assignment than something writ by the gods.

Putt-putt fisticuffs. His-and-hers airbrushed T-shirts. Catching waves in jean shorts on a Confederate-flag-and-marijuana-leaf boogie board. Not even his magnificent poodleskin cap of a mullet feels out of place.

Powers is a bona fide white-trash laureate, and these are his crimson-necked people.

-- CHRISTOPHER LAWRENCE

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