Vice Principals with Danny McBride and Walton Goggins

THERES LIKE 2 EPISODES LEFT

this shit aint getting renewed

there's 18 total planned iirc, idk why hbo wouldn't just let it ride

they already shot all of the episodes

OH MY BAD LOL i thought i saw a one of those ONLY TWO EPS LEFT things on hbo

Yeah this is a 2 seasons and done thing

I hope, Οὖτις, that Russell family life gets explored. It would be worthwhile, 'cuz there's a potentially funny setup there. Also wondered if in response to the weightlifter's knuckling he was going to try to revenge himself somehow.

this show is fucking good

Loved the use of Rachel Zeffira's music in the hospital scene.

huh, so

im not sure the show ever really got better but somehow i enjoyed this more and more as it went along. really curious to see where the rest of it goes, at least!

yea i laughed a lot @ this last ep, plot feels m/l incidental to me in a way but id really like to see more still

not sure how you do a second season after that ending

In an era of dark comedies, this is pretty bleak. I know who I think was behind the mask.

Behind the mask? my guesses: Mrs. Russell, Gamby's daughter, a cabal of women (secretary, Snodgrass), the jilted ex–, the theatre teacher?

Crazy neighbor guy?

wau @ finale. I think it's safe to say at this point that fears expressed upthread about how this was all about reveling in two lame white guys humiliating a black woman were very wide of the mark. I mean, she definitely gets humiliated but the payback and the consequences of what they've done are p extreme. "I'm not sure the show ever really got better but somehow I enjoyed this more and more as it went along" mirrors my own experience. This is an incredibly dark and painfully funny show, it's crazy the way they tread such a fine line between the two. All of the main characters are p nuanced - it's brutal about their failings but also sympathetic about their respective issues, I can't really think of anything else like it. It feels like much more of an ensemble show in that respect than Eastbound and Down, which was p much just solely focused on the buffoonery of Kenny Powers.

Those last 2 eps... D: and I did *not* see that ending coming.

The too-obv masked person is Russell, but it wont be him I guess. Or more, I'd be disappointed if it was him, as thats too easy.

But yikes. the takedown scene at the rail tracks was hard to watch. I hated them all so much.

why would Russell blow up his own car

misdirection

that's some pretty expensive misdirection

he burned down a woman's house for this job, man.

that dude dont care!

he just doesn't seem like the kind of guy who can afford to blow up his own car, is what I'm saying

as far as not seeing the ending coming - I was waiting most of the episode for the other shoe to drop, there was no way they were just going to get away with everything unscathed, although I was definitely surprised by the form the payback took.

this show is based in cartoon world land i dont think finances enter the picture

didn't he also steal some jewellery from the house?

that was Gamby. which at first I thought was some Chekov's gun sorta stuff (since he used it to buy his daughter's horse) but so far it hasn't come back up.

yeah I know Gamby gave his to the stables dude, but I thought Russell helped himself too

I think the show has been really good from a plotting perspective (probably the benefit of shooting two seasons all at once) so I'd be surprised if it doesn't come back to haunt in some way

Some theories I've seen:
- Brown set fire to their cars, and the shooter thing was a coincidence and someone else
- The fire/shooter is the other teacher Gamby pissed off, the unhinged one (apparently the shooter had the same boots on?)

I also hadnt fully twigged that Russell is setting Gamby the fuck up, by that conversation at the flagpole where he made it sound like Gamby did everything. He was recording everything with that pen, wasnt he.

Lol i didnt catch that at all! Makes sense tho

why would Russell blow up his own car

my favorite part of the last episode was ray's beautiful hand-crafted knife that even neal couldn't totally disregard.

i loved all the twists and turns in the plot and how with one notable exception there are redeemable qualities to all the characters. i assume the second season will hinge on whether russell can be stopped somehow.

For reasons I'm not sure of, my other half's been FB friends with Walton Goggins for years (I think he must just add anyone who asks? I dunno). He always used to jokingly invite him to parties we had, and I'd be all "who the fuck is this Goggins dude?". Now I wish we really could get him to show up! He'd be a blast.

no love for the new season?

Thanks for the reminder - didn't know!

I feel like this has turned out to be more of a really strange (and intermittently funny) character study a la Observe and Report than the more tightly comic Eastbound & Down but yeah I'm still watching.

Gamby's "Principal-for-a-day" TV speech was funny. Russell's sisters too.

no idea who shot Gamby at this point, I figure eventually he'll get around to solving that mystery lol

damn totally forgot this was back

Yeah Ive enjoyed its return so far.

the score is on point

i watched like all of S1 on an airplane, it was a delightful surprise

funny as fuck is this. Goggins is such a comedy natural, The Shield seems a lifetime ago.

i agree that it's way more character driven than a straight up comedy. it is hilarious when it wants to be, but the very international changes in tone make it clear it's aiming for more than just more east bound style laughs. i can't wait to see what the pay off is. my money is still on the teacher with the strange attraction to Gamby as the assailant. still don't know what her name is. it took me a minute in the most recent episode to realize that "Seychelles" was James Connor, as they don't really stress any of the tertiary characters names much to my recollection.

ray is the moral centre, dude rules

goggins doing a great job this season at being the under dog

I almost felt sorry for him after the birthday chaos, but he's been horrible to his wife, so.

it seems inevitable that he'll be revealed as the shooter at this point

So excited for the last two episodes. Not convinced lee is the shooter at all rn but who knows?

thinking lee may have been the shooter but the whole season has been a reconciliation act between Gamby and him. Lee wanted the principal title so bad, but not sure it was what he wanted when he finally stepped into it