Vice Principals (HBO)

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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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tragabigzanda wrote:
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tragabigzanda wrote:OK, S2 E2 is making me laugh a lot. Some of these characters are so ridiculous and cartoony that it's starting to remind me more of eastbound and down.
Season 2 is brilliant. Its funny, its fucked up and it has a lot of heart. Amazing.
I'm really hoping that the drug-dealing kid who takes care of his grandad becomes a regular character. I was howling when he punched the woman in the face in E2, but then you really start to feel for him as the episode goes on.
Oh there is more coming from him. Its brilliant the way they use him in the series.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Can we talk about how brilliant Walton Goggins is here?
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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i dont get how you could feel offended. Its bonkers...the whole show is about these characters being awful and at the same time begin human.
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One thing I like a little more about VP over Eastbound is that there is a counter to McBride's dominant personality. Goggins is just as much alpha male so it's a different dynamic than KP and Stevie.
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Oh yeah...and his arc in season 2 is brillant. The same with McBride´s character.
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This was the best TV show I watched all year.

So fucking funny and twisted.
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the real MVP is the costume designer for Lee Russell
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Binged season 2. Very good. Still crushing on Busy Phillips all these years after F&G.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Yeah, that's how it was always going to be.

This show was one of the funniest things ever though.
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tragabigzanda wrote:So apparently that's it? Just two seasons? Damn.
http://collider.com/walton-goggins-inte ... rincipals/
It said all it needed to say
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This is one of those thread bumps that got me all excited for nothing. :? Fuck you, Gamby!
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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