- Starring
- Glenn Powell, Steve Zahn, Toby Huss
- Creator
- Glenn Powell, Michael Waldron
- Rating
- TV-MA
- Genre
- Comedy, Sport
- Release date
- Sept 30, 2025
- Where to watch
- Hulu
Overall Score
Rating Overview
Rating Summary
Russ Holliday was the hotshot college quarterback with a cannon arm and a mouth that wrote checks his game couldn’t cash—until one colossal blunder tanked his dreams and left him scraping by in anonymity. Fast-forward eight years, and he’s reinventing himself as Chad Powers, a bumbling, mustachioed everyman crashing the tryouts for the scrappy South Georgia Catfish, a bottom-feeder D-II squad desperate for a miracle.
Chad Powers REVIEW
Chad Powers Mini-Review›
(S1: E1-5)
Chad Powers has heart. That, Powell's charisma, and some surprising comedic instincts for a pretty boy are largely the driving factors for the show. Otherwise, it's a pretty standard tale of seeking redemption and learning selflessness amidst daily teamwork.
For a show about a football player who is trying to redeem himself on the football field, the pigskin gets tossed around surprisingly little in Chad Powers. Furthermore, there's some directorial weakness that peeks its head out during the one major game that is shown. Not all of the characters seem believably invested in the outcome as would feel natural, and there are some other layup emotional beats that are, if not squandered, not as impactful as they easily could and should have been.
That said, Chad Powers offers some laughs and, if you can look past some of the woke rot in the report below, you'll probably dig it.
We'll see how the finale goes.
Chad Powers Mini-Review›
(S1: Finale)
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James Carrick
James Carrick is a passionate film enthusiast with a degree in theater and philosophy. James approaches dramatic criticism from a philosophic foundation grounded in aesthetics and ethics, offering insight and analysis that reveals layers of cinematic narrative with a touch of irreverence and a dash of snark.
I haven’t seen this yet but with over 1700 views there is some interest and you might think someone has seen this show.
It’s woke s###
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