A sports comedy born from a short à la Ted Lasso, and with a story that used to be fit for a 95-minute theatrical film but has been stretched to fill out a multi-season TV series à la Stick, Chad Powers is an amiable affair that’s never actually funny.

That’s no fault of Glen Powell, who’s goofily charming as a football has-been intent on pulling a fast one on the country in order to return to the field. Yet it’s nonetheless a severe shortcoming of this six-part Hulu show, premiering Sept. 30, which fails to decide if it wants to be ribald or saccharine and winds up settling for somewhere in the milquetoast middle.

Its premise inspired by an Eli Manning viral video, Chad Powers stars Powell as Russ Holliday, whose ticket to the NFL was revoked when, as the quarterback for the University

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