Vice Principals with Danny McBride and Walton Goggins

really love this show

snodgrass's reading made me cringe so hard i literally had to pause it for a minute.

tbf Fisher Stevens' reading was worse but yeah the whole thing was painful, seemed like it was all just driving home the point of how she is just as delusional/second-rate as Gamby

They are all terrible people basically, except for Ray, I agree he is the moral centre.

the whole point of the show seems to be about how objectively terrible people can still be sympathetic

Ray is an obvious exception, as he doesn't seem to have a resentful bone in his body

maybe the twist is Ray shot Gamby lol

Ha, I'd buy that!

lold so much @ the opening scene a few back & lee cranking avril lavigne

My money is on the kid that pooped on the portrait.

that nash woman character looking so much like robert mitchum is crazy/perfect

lee "we are a carload of teenage girls headin' to the beach its going to get disgusting"

wau @ epic fight scene tracking shots

there's one more episode, right? cuz I have a hard time believing the happy prom (w psycho ex lurking in the background) is the end

yes, one more.

I also noticed the direction this time, and even marveled that McBride really seemed to be acting in a few scenes. Lo and behold he directed the episode.

that fight scene was great! like they live style!

holy shit

that's all folks

still haven't seen any of s2 yet. how's it compare to s1, which I thought was only OK?

same vibe imo

Stevie cameo was sweet

The "highs" (like the wild set pieces) of this show are so great but the lows just aren't carried by the acting/writing in the same way they were in early Eastbound and Down. I feel like it's worth watching for the high points, but it's not the greatest show ever like EB&D felt like it coulda been before it got sweaty

are you saying EB&D is not the greatest show ever cuz I will fight you

first coupla seasons coulda been!

That last episode was balls out nutso. I loved it. The tiger escaping bit. Props to the few ppl upthread who predicted who the shooter was, not that it mattered much in the end.

Finally got around to watching this whole series and really dug it. Actual character arcs and shit, Goggins doing a great job believably dancing on the line between asshole and sociopath.

wau @ epic fight scene tracking shots

Yeah that was really well done!

Would take boring season after season of gamby/russell over k.powers tbh. Rewatched both and good lord goggins could’ve held the series on his own.

yeah I fucking love EB&D but this was next level for me.

Any word on this new McBride show, The Righteous Gemstones? I only literally this moment learned of its existence from a random website ad.

I watched the first episode, it continues very much in the same vein as his previous two HBO shows - same type of characters, same type of dialogue, same type of conflicts/themes. First ep alternated between mildly amusing and artfully crafted disturbing.

well on second thought maybe it was just the very end that was "oh yikes so uh now this is happening"

Second episode was pretty damn good tho I thought Walter Goggles was going to be in it. Edi Patterson is great and Keefe (the ex-Satanist guy) is just about perfect.

Appearance of Goggins in ep3 def kicked this up a notch

We enjoyed the first ep, but it was a bit of a letdown after two eps of On Becoming a God in Central Florida.

I kinda want every episode to just introduce/focus on a new bizarre family member (fingers crossed for stevie janowski appearance)

"let's see those balls ..c'mon!" lol that was p funny, glad Goggins has turned up.

This might be the highest male:female nudity ratio i've ever seen on a show

Also more Goodman in ep 3 too, which doesn't hurt.

really liking this

some serious Scorsese/Casino vibes with that opening cash-flow montage in the last ep

Feel like this is better than Vice Principals, the bigger cast/broader range of focal points work in its favor

Damn still haven't even started this. The Deuce came back this week (?!)

the youth minister and his ex-satanist sidekick are chefskiss.jpg

Feel like this is better than Vice Principals, the bigger cast/broader range of focal points work in its favor

nah, (so far) this has a huge serious core topic that is just a hook to hang tomfoolery upon; Vice Principals treated a very tiny unimportant position as massively important, for greater fundamental comic effect.

also more & better Goggins.

(nb not saying that Gemstones is not v funny and entertaining, just defending Vice Principals)

next weeks ep looks like a good flashback one from the teaser, with hopefully much more Goggins.

kinda wanna poll the wigs/hairstyles on this but Goggins would probably take it easily

yeah, hoping the teaser is not in fact merely teasing a whole episode of flashback

Never made it all the way through vice principals, but i’m enjoying gemstones a lot. i’m not finding it particularly laugh-out-loud funny though, especially compared to eastbound and down. the most consistently funny characters are judy and keefe, but even they are more smirk-inducing than anything

holy shit M. Emmet Walsh

Vice Principals never quite hit for me, although I was watching in binge fashion having not watched it as released.

Gemstones is great so far and the existence of a well-plotted backstory and history really paid off in this week's flashback episode

"Uncle Baby Billy" will never not be funny

some background on the song: https://www.fastcompany.com/90404022/how-misbehaving-catchy-righteous-gemstones-earworm-came-together?utm_msg=c2ljJ3MgZ29ubmEgaGF0ZSB0aGlz

holy shit M. Emmet Walsh

yeah I did a double-take at that one

"runnin through the kitchen with a pickle in my mouth" is a line worthy of George Jones