Vice Principals may be a worthy successor to Eastbound & Down

There are two sublime moments in the first episode of HBO’s new series Vice Principals. The first takes no more than ten seconds, and takes place in the first two minutes of the show. It’s an exchange between Danny McBride’s Neal Gamby and Walton Goggins’ Lee Russell, an exercise in swearing that carries as such a clip that it transcends how dumb the things the men are saying actually are. It’s also an easy distillation of the central conceit of the show: the two men are just as immature as the high schoolers they jockey to rule. Judging from the pilot, Vice Principals may be a worthy successor to Eastbound & Down, which was, for my money, one of HBO’s best. While the premise might initially feel like a retread, Jody Hill and Danny McBride have something fresh on their hands with the addition of Walton Goggins to the mix. Kimberly Hébert Gregory, as Dr. Belinda Brown, is the final part of the ultimately three-part act: http://www.cutprintfilm.com/tv/tv-reviews/vice-principals-principal/