-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Vice Principals - Danny McBride & Walton Goggins - HBO Comedy - [update: S2 trailer!]
- Thread starter Cornballer
- Start date
- Status
lastflowers
Banned
I was dying during that entire sequence with Russell calling the police on his neighbor. When he recognized him in the window. X_X
So good. As an unabashed Mcbride fan I would love it if just rehashed old ground but I don't feel it is. By taking the center of attention away from Neil it's allowing them to keep Danny's normal Schtick but give it nuance and depth, I actually feel that unlike Kenny, Neil actually has been learning some things and developing beyond a surface.
And Goggins is just off the chains, hard to get a handle on who Lee is or what he is really about and Walton plays it to perfection, knuckles while Jackie was down was over the top in a good way.
Awesome.
And Goggins is just off the chains, hard to get a handle on who Lee is or what he is really about and Walton plays it to perfection, knuckles while Jackie was down was over the top in a good way.
Awesome.
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
Loved the focus on Goggins this week. His little routine while watching the cops talk to his neighbor was hilarious.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Lee stole the show this week but Gamby had his best moments yet, too.
His wave to his daughter, breaking the pencil and hitting the drawers was amazing, and all his stuff in the new disciplinary room was career best.
His wave to his daughter, breaking the pencil and hitting the drawers was amazing, and all his stuff in the new disciplinary room was career best.
GraveRobberX
Platinum Trophy: Learned to Shit While Upright Again.
"Watch This!, Sleep Mothafucka" has got to be the funniest line with that action committed to film I've ever seen
My goodness Lee is everything to me at the moment
My goodness Lee is everything to me at the moment
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
need some speedwalking gifs, cornballer
I don't understand some of the criticism I've seen on the internet about Danny playing the same kind of character as KP. The shot of Neil at the dirt bike track was really telling, he's not an unabashed arrogant prick. He's a guy coming to grips with his weaknesses and learning.
sir_kevith
Member
When Lee was watching the neighbor after calling the police was the highlight. Also the freakin haircut!
I clapped at the end. Gamby is a fucking hero.
Edit:
Yeah, agreed. This isn't Kenny Powers. Neal Gamby is has a moral compass ... he has a heart but he has an incredibly old school mentality and he's slowly unsticking is head up his ass. He's the straight guy. I could see him as a vice principle at a school, albeit exaggerated but not too far off.
Kenny Powers visited a school several times in Eastbound & Down as a gym teacher and there's a huge contrast in my opinion with the characters in similar settings/situation.
Edit:
Yeah, agreed. This isn't Kenny Powers. Neal Gamby is has a moral compass ... he has a heart but he has an incredibly old school mentality and he's slowly unsticking is head up his ass. He's the straight guy. I could see him as a vice principle at a school, albeit exaggerated but not too far off.
Kenny Powers visited a school several times in Eastbound & Down as a gym teacher and there's a huge contrast in my opinion with the characters in similar settings/situation.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
That wave.
Messofanego
Banned
I need to see this. Loved Eastbound and Down and Foot Fist Way.
Strangelove77
Member
This episode was the best yet.
"Stop accusing me of fucking men in the woods."
"Stop accusing me of fucking men in the woods."
Great payoff because he saw both of them walking out of the woods together in an earlier episode.
Discotheque
Banned
Funniest episode of the season. They were both hilarious in here. Loved the talk-circle scenes and Russell watching those korean dramas.
Man that sassy ass step he took onto the neighbors property after being dared was too much lmao.
Man that sassy ass step he took onto the neighbors property after being dared was too much lmao.
efyu_lemonardo
May I have a cookie?
Yep, Gamby is a much more sympathetic character and certainly more mature than Kenny Powers. Though both have a similar moment to moment attitude of living in their own bubble but Neil is actually capable of much more (and faster) growth whereas Powers was almost a cartoon in that respect.
Throughout large parts of EB&D Powers would only come out on top because his rivals managed to be even bigger dickheads than him whereas Gamby is actually capable of listening to criticism and doesn't take half a season to take it to heart.
I've never met a man more mature than Kenny Powers.
MrPressStart
Member
I don't care if he put out a hundred shows with the same character. Dude is funny as fuck and Lee .... Perfect casting.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Was that the cold open where he's smoking and sees them come out, he exhales, goes "fffuck." and cuts to opening credits?
That was genius comic timing.
"vaping", not smoking bro
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
lmao as i typed it i was like wait was he actually vaping but i was like no it couldn't be that would be just almost too much comedy in one sequence
lazyproblems
Member
"I don't fuck men in the woods!"
"C-word!!"
This show just keeps getting better. Goggins steals the show, but I felt that McBride and Gregory were fantastic in this episode too.
"C-word!!"
This show just keeps getting better. Goggins steals the show, but I felt that McBride and Gregory were fantastic in this episode too.
broncobuster
Banned
I love the dismissal of "I never go into the woods. Everybody knows that about me."
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
lmao yesss
danny mcbride is the only person on earth who could deliver this line
-Pyromaniac-
Member
Last 2 episodes have straight killed me. The vandalism montage was great.
#dead that's a line only danny mcbride can deliver
schadenfood
Member
My favorite two moments from Sunday's episode--
-The overly-long discussion between Goggins and the teacher about muscles
-The "breakthrough" sequence in group therapy that culminated in the kid saying "maybe" and the cuts to everyone nodding looking pleased
Wasn't sure about this show at first but the past few episodes have been fantastic. As mentioned before, I like how they're taking McBride's character and actually having him grow, which is a nice change from Kenny Powers' stubbornness.
-The overly-long discussion between Goggins and the teacher about muscles
-The "breakthrough" sequence in group therapy that culminated in the kid saying "maybe" and the cuts to everyone nodding looking pleased
Wasn't sure about this show at first but the past few episodes have been fantastic. As mentioned before, I like how they're taking McBride's character and actually having him grow, which is a nice change from Kenny Powers' stubbornness.
FantasticMrFoxdie
Mumber
Yep.
I hope this isn't a limited series. This needs 6 seasons and a movie
Goggins and McBride are cunting amazing
I hope this isn't a limited series. This needs 6 seasons and a movie
Goggins and McBride are cunting amazing
tearsintherain
Member
McBride and the other creator have already said the show is going to be exactly 2 seasons long, 18 episodes total. It was originally written as a movie and extended to be a TV show with a beginning, middle, and end.
FantasticMrFoxdie
Mumber
Darn. I'm okay with this then. As long as we get more than 1 season
That fucking song lolol
NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
I like how much attention is being paid to the fact that these two nuts are actually becoming good friends.
Danny McBride is go goddamned good.
And man, Lee at the end of the episode. I was in stitches.
And no weird Ms Abbot this week. I feel like her and Gamby should have more scenes together. I'm still cracking up at "I love you" out of nowhere. Fucking McBride haahaha
Danny McBride is go goddamned good.
And man, Lee at the end of the episode. I was in stitches.
And no weird Ms Abbot this week. I feel like her and Gamby should have more scenes together. I'm still cracking up at "I love you" out of nowhere. Fucking McBride haahaha
Cornballer
Member
- Onion A|V Club review
- Promo for next week's episode (please spoiler tag any discussion)
- Flip The Script: Vice Principals S1, Ep. 5
- Promo for next week's episode (please spoiler tag any discussion)
- Flip The Script: Vice Principals S1, Ep. 5
Cornballer
Member
Saw this episode last night and had to pause and laugh for 5 minutes straight.
I love that McBride shoots the guy in the head, chest and then crotch.
March of the Crabs
Member
This show is so damn good. I thought it would be an Eastbound and Down retread (which I would have been fine with) but it's really taken off in a much different way than I would have expected. Can't wait for more.
Man, I related to the scene where Lee got interrupted during the Korean drama. I was so mad with him. And he had to watch it with his cranky ass MIL too so the mood was already tainted a little before something else interrupted his moment.
Also the therapy scenes conveyed catharsis so well. I exhaled during the male one in particular then hated myself afterwards.
Also the therapy scenes conveyed catharsis so well. I exhaled during the male one in particular then hated myself afterwards.
-Pyromaniac-
Member
I found myself nodding with everyone else and then feeling dumb
Cornballer
Member
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
crying
Cornballer
Member
Who's got the muscles now, dickhead? I do. That's who.
You don't want to tussle with Lee Russell cuz I have the muscle.
Busted! I'm busted by Lee Russell.
I'm busted! Busted by Lee Russell.
Who put the po-po in your ho ho? Lee Russell that's who.
You're busted.
You're busted.
You're busted by Lee Russell and you're busted.
Put that in your fucking boombox and play it.
Agreed. Walton fucking Goggins makes this entire show. McBride is gonna McBride, but whoever talked Walton into bringing his talents to this show hit the mega jackpot.
- Status
Similar threads
- Locked
- Locked