The 'Chad Powers' Season Finale Is Baffling

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The thing about Eli Manning’s original “Chad Powers” video is that it was a funny, feel-good prank the former New York Giants QB played on a college football team. It worked because it was real — and at the end of those seven minutes, Eli Manning could take off his prosthetics and everyone could have a nice laugh about it.

That’s not what happens in Hulu’s six-episode first season of Chad Powers . Completely aside from the show’s strange preoccupation with Chad’s prosthetic , the tone has been … weird. It’s a comedy, and there are jokes, but Russ Holiday — the character played by Glen Powell who disguises himself as Chad Powers — is a deeply sad guy.

And for good reason. In college, he blew the National Cham

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