The penultimate episode of Vice Principals concluded on a note that felt very much like the end of the series. The teachers had finally pushed Russell out of North Jackson High, Snodgrass and Gamby found their way back to each other and shared a kiss, and everything was looking up for the students with prom right…
Vice Principals, which wrapped up its second and final season tonight, is certainly similar to work Danny McBride has done before. Much like Eastbound & Down, it’s a madcap creative vision that asks us to be both entertained and repulsed by a troubling protagonist. In the case of Vice Principals, there are two of…
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Season two of Vice Principals has been a marked improvement on the first. The greatness that reared its head every now and then throughout the first season, and especially in its back half, has been front and center in nearly every episode this season. The storytelling feels tighter and more inspired; David Gordon…
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Last week’s incredible episode of Vice Principals succeeded by upending our expectations of what was to come of Gamby and Russell moving in different directions. The sense was that their shifting morality would put them at odds, eventually leading to a showdown over who would get to be Principal of North Jackson High.…
Vice Principals has spent a fair amount of time in its second and final season pitting Neil Gamby and Lee Russell against each other. Despite their shared destruction of Principal Brown in the first season, they’ve largely been on different teams, be it because of their outlook when it comes to North Jackson High or…
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Russell is a fragile man who can’t catch a break. Perhaps that’s karma, as the universe offsets all of his toxic nonsense and unrelenting cruelty with moments that make him cower in fear and frustration. No matter the reasons, be they spiritual or just plain bad luck, it’s clear that Russell’s path in the second…
In this outtake from The A.V. Club Hosted By John Teti—which airs Thursday nights on Fusion—John talks to Vice Principals actor Edi Patterson about her surprising pop-culture interest: all things scary. The chat leads to Gremlins, ghost-hunting, and more. Here’s where you can watch The A.V. Club show.
Praise be to the weird team of Danny McBride, John Carcieri, Adam Countee, and director David Gordon Green for always finding ways to move Vice Principals forward, even when it looks like it’s about to take a few steps back. Last week’s episode, “The King,” was certainly funny, but it felt weirdly isolated from the…
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One of the best things about the first season of Vice Principals was how much the show grew. A slowburn approach isn’t always the best option when it comes to episodic TV, but for Vice Principals it worked. Over eight episodes the HBO comedy used its patient approach to continually escalate tensions, vulgarity, and…
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In order to understand Vice Principals and its particular brand of humor, you have to understand that there’s a single character trait within Neil Gamby and Lee Russell that makes them who they are. It’s not their vindictiveness, lack of a filter, or their propensity for blaming everyone else for their problems. It’s…
The first season of HBO’s Vice Principals took awhile to find its footing. In fact, it might be more apt to say that each episode of the eight-episode first season contained something brilliant and evocative, but those moments were often countered by some sloppy storytelling and a muddled sense of morality that made…
As the days grow incrementally cooler and shorter, it’s time once more to prepare for the big TV harvest. Hulu and Amazon Prime’s crops include new seasons of One Mississippi, Transparent, and The Mindy Project, as well as a whole lot of movies you probably should have seen by now. Now it’s HBO’s turn to reveal the…
The first season of HBO’s unhinged comedy Vice Principals ended on a twist, with Danny McBride and Walton Goggins’ achieving their dream of becoming Co-Principals only to have McBride get shot by a mysterious man in a mask. This first teaser for the show’s second (and final) season doesn’t resolve that mystery in any…
It’s not quite time to head back to school for HBO’s Vice Principals, the latest raucous comedy from Danny McBride and Jody Hill. But with season one coming to DVD and Blu-Ray on February 7, there’s no better time to catch up with vicious, ambitious school officials Lee Russell (Walton Goggins) and Neal Gamby (Danny…
For all of its bluster, dick jokes, and curse words, Vice Principals does have a sense of humanity. It’s hard to find it every now and then, but all the barbs and insults lead to scars. They’re being formed every single episode, as characters like Gamby, Russell, Brown, and Snodgrass try their best to deal with past…
