Vice Principals with Danny McBride and Walton Goggins

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

That shot w the mask popping out was genuine jump-scare shit

Could it be Lees MIL? That'd be hilarious.

God, I hate Fisher Stevens so much btw. He looks like if Woody Allen had some kind of terminal illness.

hooooly shit totally missed that that was him!? jfc what happened

oh wait lol I was mixing him up with Parker Stevens lol

The key to the mystery is that Jeep. I don't recall seeing it before (then again I'm not watching this for "clues" so I could have easily missed it) because Lee was always driving that BMW. What was he driving in the first season?

lee specifically mentions getting the jeep in the divorce so we can't rule out his wife as a suspect. i'd bet on gamby going incorrectly going after lee, lee incorrectly incriminating his ex and snodgrass helping to correctly to incriminate abbott.

yeah my money's kind of on abbott at this point

Be funny if it was Gambys daughter.

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.