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Vice Principals - Danny McBride & Walton Goggins - HBO Comedy - [update: S2 trailer!]

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Grinchy

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Snodgrass' real accent
http://origin.obsev.com/thelowdown/...-season-2-dark-what-its-working-danny-mcbride

She's scottish
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Ghost_Messiah

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Can anyone recommend me some good comedy shows that are similar to this? Enjoying this so much and there's only one episode left so I'll be left without a show to watch. I'm checking out You're The Worst as we speak - is that one any good? Your assistance would be appreciated!
 
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Ghost_Messiah said:
Can anyone recommend me some good comedy shows that are similar to this? Enjoying this so much and there's only one episode left so I'll be left without a show to watch. I'm checking out You're The Worst as we speak - is that one any good? Your assistance would be appreciated!
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Watch Delocated
 
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sjboi

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Just caught up, and that episode was so good. I always love the scenes with Gamby and his ex-wife. Also, Dr. Browns gin-drinking sequence was hilarious. This show is amazing!

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I'm checking out You're The Worst as we speak - is that one any good? Your assistance would be appreciated!
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You're the Worst is a great show too! Season 2 was really good, haven't watched 3 yet (don't have fx)
 
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Shanks D Zoro

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What a fantastic episode.

I was cringing the whole way through that ending.

The "I'm trying to suck your dick" bit got me good and I was dead when she actually pissed on the cop car.

I started watching EBD, pretty good. I am four episodes in and actually prefer VP.

I was expecting it to be in Mexico, I think I must have seen an episode in one of the latter episodes.
 
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- Esquire interview: Vice Principals Co-Creator Jody Hill Has No Problem Making You Feel Uncomfortable
With either Eastbound & Down or Vice Principals, has HBO ever told you that you've gone too far?

I would say 99.9% of the time, no. There were one or two times they said something early on with Eastbound. There was one episode in the first season that we'd written and we showed it to them, and it was basically Kenny running into these devil worshipers and they try to rape Clegg (played by Ben Best), and stuff like that. [Laughs]. It was basically Danny bringing the devil worshippers to church and killing one of them on the altar because he thought it was the right thing to do. I remember they read that the first season and…they didn't freak out, but they were just like, okay, this might not be all right. But after the first season, I'll be honest, there hasn't been a lot of stuff that's come up.

When it debuted, Vice Principals took some flak from critics for its premise about two white men trying to undermine an African-American female superior. When you were shooting, did you think it might inspire such a response? And how do you feel about it now?

Well, I don't know. I know how the show goes over all eighteen episodes. I'm not trying to say that there's some big plot point—I don't even really want to get into that. But these critics are going to see these characters differently. And it's fine if the jury is still out, or if you give impressions based off what you've seen. But some of it just seems like an extremely quick judgment. It's almost like they were waiting for something to happen, or some reason to say it.

It's kind of crazy, because as the show goes on—and I think you're starting to see that now—people don't see these guys as two-dimensional. Kimberly said it really well. She was like 'Why do you have a problem with this? You're the one who pointed it out."

But I have to say, we thought about it a little bit—people are going to think this is some dumb premise just to get you in. And that's the thing: It kind of is. That's kind of what we like about it. It looks like the old Hollywood thing, and then I just don't think anyone is going to feel the same after it's over. You may hate it still, but I don't think you'll feel like any of that shit they were talking.
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HBO convinced you and Danny to return to Eastbound for a fourth season, after you'd said the show was over. Is that why you shot both seasons of Vice Principals at once—to avoid being convinced, later on, to continue it?

With Eastbound, we were going to do three seasons, but Katy Mixon [who played Danny McBride's wife April] wasn't able to join us for the third season—she joined us for two episodes, but we couldn't really do an arc with that. And then it turned out that HBO wanted us to come back, and we were like, we're not coming back. But then they said they'd get us Katy Mixon, and we thought, "Okay, that's a chance to end this show the way we wanted to. So let's do it." I'm glad we came back for that.

We are fans of the British Office and BBC shows, and we thought it would be cool to end the show with the story complete. I always hate it when you're watching a show and you're a fan of it, and inevitably, you sort of start to dislike it over time, because they're reaching and trying to keep going, and you can tell that they're just doing everything they can to have some filler to hit the 100 episodes. We didn't want to do that. I'd like to have that money, don't get me wrong [Laughs]. But I don't know…it just seems kind of lame.

Can you tell me anything else about where Vice Principals might be headed?

I think that everybody, when they first see this, probably thinks they know where it's going to go. But the whole thing, all eighteen episodes, goes to really crazy places – there's lots of heartfelt stuff, there's lots of dark stuff. But I don't think you're going to be able to predict where it's going to go. So I'll just say, if you like what you see, there's plenty more of that.
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More via the link. Interesting interview.
 
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Season finale tonight:
End of the Line

Gamby (Danny McBride) and Russell (Walton Goggins) play their end game with Dr. Brown (Kimberly Hébert Gregory).
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Note that Vice Principals will be back next year with another nine episodes to conclude the series.
 
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Shanks D Zoro

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Been watching EBD

Fuck me this is some of the most cringe worthy television I have seen.The funeral/fourth of July episodes are hilarious.

What a show
 
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Belinda is my favorite character and the last episode cemented that. I hope things don't get too bleak for her in the finale. :(
 
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TheDarkKnight774

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Holy shit!

Man what a ride. Loved Dr. Brown just wailing on them. And the rest of the episode I kept waiting for the other proverbial shoe to drop. But man I didn't think it was going to be that! That had to be Stephon right?

Also I can't wait to see the hallway walking in gif form!
 
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Imperial Hot

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Major spoilers:

That's got to be Russell. Too tall to be Belinda (and out of character), doesn't make sense to be Steffon... I also feel like we've seen that mask before... I watched the scene a few times, there's got to be some kind of clue....ahhhhhh WHEN'S THE NEXT SEASON

broncobuster said:
When is Season 2?

Ending spoilers
thinking it was Lee.
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It has to be!
 
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Rabbi_Vole said:
Wife and I think the same.

He didn't shoot to kill.. Just seriously injure leaving Lee as the sole Principal.
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It just doesn't make sense story-wise if it was anyone else. Unless it's just some random character out of thin air...which would be terrible. Also, Gamby is a fairly redeemable character but Russell is not... There is no way that Russell would allow them to be co-principals.
Also, thoughts on next season:
So, I think its got to be Lee Russell who shot Gamby. And I think that Lee is going to frame Gamby for all the shit they did to Belinda and frame Belinda for the shooting taking care of both parties.
 
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Imperial Hot said:
It just doesn't make sense story-wise if it was anyone else. Unless it's just some random character out of thin air...which would be terrible. Also, Gamby is a fairly redeemable character but Russell is not... There is no way that Russell would allow them to be co-principals.
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But it's also almost too predictable.
The flagpole conversations purpose was to make Lee look suspicious. Could be his ex gf, Lee's neighbor, etc.
 
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Rabbi_Vole said:
But it's also almost too predictable.
The flagpole conversations purpose was to make Lee look suspicious. Could be his ex gf, Lee's neighbor, etc.
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Sure. I understand that at a surface level. But none of those characters have actual motivation to do that. It doesn't progress the story any if its not Russell. The more i think about it, I don't think it is so much about the mystery of being "surprised" by the reveal next season, I think the drama and excitement is going to be about how Gamby navigates this shit because Russell is WAYYYY crazier than Gamby. I think that's been the whole thing. Gamby while being a dick, isn't actually an evil person - but Russell is actually evil.
 
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Some redditors think it's Ray, and I have to agree the knife as a gift was weird and the show spends a strange amount of time on Ray scenes and he has a lot of lines. His monologue about how he'll never have what Gamby has could be looked back on as a giant red flag and be interpreted as sinister. Without Gamby in the picture, he really would be her dad, and the funniest part would be that all of Gamby's unwarranted vitriol toward Ray will have been warranted.
 
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Arkeband said:
Some redditors think it's Ray, and I have to agree the knife as a gift was weird and the show spends a strange amount of time on Ray scenes and he has a lot of lines. His monologue about how he'll never have what Gamby has could be looked back on as a giant red flag and be interpreted as sinister. Without Gamby in the picture, he really would be her dad, and the funniest part would be that all of Gamby's unwarranted vitriol toward Ray will have been warranted.
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Interesting. Hadn't considered Ray.
 
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Rabbi_Vole said:
Wife and I think the same.

He didn't shoot to kill.. Just seriously injure leaving Lee as the sole Principal.
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My opinion on the end of the episode:
That second shot to the gut has to be fatal. No way Gamby lives to the second season. I'm sure they filmed it continuously because that would be too hard to keep secret otherwise. Neal is almost certainly dead.
 
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And to reiterate -- this show was filmed as a one off. 18 episodes filmed together, split into two seasons. That's it. There are no plans for more episodes. With that in mind, I would be absolutely shocked if
Neal lives. I think it's set up perfectly for a bonkers second and final season.
 
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Meier said:
And to reiterate -- this show was filmed as a one off. 18 episodes filmed together, split into two seasons. That's it. There are no plans for more episodes. With that in mind, I would be absolutely shocked if Neal lives. I think it's set up perfectly for a bonkers second and final season.
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No way, they would have just had him shot in the head if he was going to die.

Not that I think it was her, but that line about how the mother in law locked herself in her room all day seemed kind of suspicious.
 
Grinchy

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Are they really gonna make us wait a whole year to get the next season if's all filmed already? Don't do that to us!

I think it was Russell who did it, but that's the obvious choice, so who knows. They'd really be ruining Ray's character if it was him.
 
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broncobuster

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Biggest point against Russell is that it's uncharacteristic of him. You all saw how he acted with his neighbor, mother in law, and Belinda. No gloating or anything.
 
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