"It's a good-natured sports comedy in the mould of Ted Lasso. Its star is Glen Powell, a man with the fairly miraculous ability to unite both warring sides of 2025 America. It shamelessly lifts the plot of Mrs Doubtfire (the second highest grossing film worldwide in 1993, fact fans) and, according to the credits, it is based on a funny video of an American football player that went viral in 2022."
"Chad Powers follows the explosive bottoming out of a cocky young football player named Russ Holliday. One minute, Holliday has the world at his feet. The next he has lost a championship, punched a fan and injured a young wheelchair-bound cancer patient, all in full view of the wider world. In other words, the show really wants you to hate him. He's the walking definition of obnoxiousness, all Cybertrucks, crypto talk and chest tattoos."
Chad Powers assembles familiar pop-culture elements into a Disney+ sitcom that feels stitched from hits yet delivers unexpectedly. The series mixes good-natured sports comedy with Mrs Doubtfire-style disguise and a viral-video origin, created by Glen Powell with writer Michael Waldron. The plot tracks cocky football star Russ Holliday's rapid downfall—lost championship, assault, and harm to a young wheelchair-bound cancer patient—and his reinvention by stealing his father's prosthetics and posing as naive college player Chad Powers. The tone is often deliberately uncomfortable but also funny and touching, with Powell's central performance elevating the material.
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