Vice Principals with Danny McBride and Walton Goggins

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

I feel like this is just way richer than Vice Principals tbh. Probably deserves it's own thread

just add "(also Righteous Gemstones)" to title

or poll the McBride / Hill / Green cinematic universe and let it clunkily become the default thread for the next decade regardless of how many other series and films they make

I am not a mod

omg Righteous Gemstones is a blast !

runnin through the house with a pickle in my mouth, misbehavin!

that's right, the whole house. that's what makes it. Brine everywhere!

great show

I can't abide about 99% of US comedy but am thoroughly enjoying this.

who is the actor playing the evil stuntman? I was trying work out who he reminded me of and when it came to me it was the bad cultist leader in Lord Of Illusions.

Scott MacArthur, who I think I last saw on the show The Mick on Fox?

ohhh that's where i remember him from! (hopefully also answer's calzino's question)

I didn't see Vice Principals, but this new show is one of the most tonally strange things I've ever seen. We're on episode 4, I think, and often it feels like watching a show set in some alternate universe of gangster preachers, stuntmen and raving Satanists. Which ... I guess it is? But it's so ott cartoonish without being funny like a cartoon. Or maybe silly without silly-show laughs, because it's interrupted by violent showdowns and gun waving in place of slapstick? I dunno, it's weird. I think we like it, though sometimes I have to ask myself what the fuck I'm watching.

some of it is cartoonish, but have you been following the Falwells lately?

For sure! But violently feuding with rival preachers isn't cartoonish, it's dark, especially as depicted here, which doesn't seem comedic, or even satirical. Now, preachers as actual crime families *is* perfectly satirical, and I do like the show, but like I said, the tone is all over the place. I don't know what to call it, even though black comedy maybe comes closest?

the satan worshipper rave party seemed pretty awesome imo

It did! It was insane! My wife was all, wait, what city is this!?

That's why it feels like an alternate universe. There's this cabal of preachers, but there's also enough Satan ravers to fill a warehouse.

McBride and crew are not about realism ime

Nope! It's totally surreal.

https://youtu.be/gPbVRpRgHso