Hulu's 'Chad Powers' Has a 'Mrs Doubtfire' Problem

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I like Glen Powell. I thought Eli Manning’s “Chad Powers” video, on which the new Hulu series is based, was fantastic, and there’s an entertaining premise at the heart of the show. The Mannings even hired a great writer to run it — Michael Waldron ( Heels , Loki ) — and you almost can’t miss with the underdog sports movie formula.

And to its credit, Chad Powers is fun. Mostly . But it’s one of those classic cases of a television series that should be a movie. They’ve stretched Eli Manning’s seven-minute video into a six-episode series, and there isn’t enough material for that.

The biggest problem is the prosthetics used to transform Glen Powell’s character, Russ Holliday, into Chad Powers. Holliday wa

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