Chad Powers on Hulu season 1, episode 5 review

SPOILER ALERT: The following contains spoilers for Chad Powers Season 1, Episode 5. It also contains a mention of suicide.

Watching Chad Powers Season 1, Episode 5 is like watching two different TV shows simultaneously. The Hulu series starts out as a raunchy comedy, borrowing its big plot twist from one of the best sports movies of all time. And then once that happens, it becomes a very serious drama that’s not laughing at all.

The first portion of “Fifth Quarter” involves Chad botching a College GameDay interview with Marty Smith as the South Georgia Catfish prepare to play the number-one Georgia Bulldogs. There are a number of jokes that are questionable, such as Coach Dobbs making reference to the murder-suicide case of WWE wrestler Chris Benoit. The explosion of the space shuttle Challenger is also mentioned for humor. Whether or not a viewer finds these bits offensive, they’re just not that funny either.

But the episode takes a turn when it follows in the footsteps of classic baseball movie Major League. In the 1989 film, hotshot pitcher Ricky Vaughn sleeps with his teammate’s wife Suzanne, not knowing who she is. In Chad Powers, Russ Holliday goes out to a bar and is picked up by a woman, not knowing that the woman is Coach Jake…