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George H.W. oval office posted:"Tight dick playa" will live in my head forever. Also, the whole cold open of the pilot, with the guy behind him describing Kenny looking like a "bag full of mashed up assholes," the cut to them walking outside of the school and him yelling "hey Kenny, you hosed my sister" *punch* smash cut blast Freddie King is too good. The S1 Ashley Schaeffer outtakes are pretty good seeing everyone try not to break: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hPp4dgmrc8
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Apr 15, 2025 17:08
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“A Kia is a far superior machine” pops into my head randomly to this day
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Apr 15, 2025 17:38
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CatstropheWaitress posted:Feel like there's an underlaying karma that makes McBride's shows work even when they're about assholes. Vice Principals sees one character go through tremendous growth, and the other who doesn't outside of learning the power of friendship. One is redeemed and rewarded while the other iirc loses his hand and rides off into the sunset working at the local mall. Lee was pretty much just a straight up sociopath, much moreso than the typical McBride rear end in a top hat character. I think the show had a really interesting "happy" ending for a character who's probably never really going to redeem themselves; he doesn't really "get better" but he's found a comfortable and essentially harmless little fiefdom for himself.
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Apr 15, 2025 17:50
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FlamingLiberal posted:Yes it is to a degree but I think some of that gets toned down after the first episode I've got it opposite: VP, RG, EB&D. But it's truly splitting hairs.
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George H.W. oval office posted:"Tight dick playa" will live in my head forever. Bob Duato
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George H.W. oval office posted:"Tight dick playa" will live in my head forever. Revisited in Gemstones. In the midst of recruiting young Eli to go break bones for the mob, "Nice dick, Ernie."
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Apr 15, 2025 18:08
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Stevie's post-cosmetic surgery face still haunts my dreams
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“With a name like Spurgeon you know he gets pussy” will randomly creep into my head every few months. Vice Principals I feel is slept on a little but it’s also so goddamn good.
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Apr 15, 2025 19:15
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VP is worth it for Edi's character Also to watch Danny be so mean to his ex's perfectly chill husband
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Jose Oquendo posted:For those who haven't seen it It's no fiiiixins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTiEQB67HOs FeculentWizardTits posted:Stevie's post-cosmetic surgery face still haunts my dreams Sorry
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fixins is one of the best jokes they came up with.
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Fiiiixins is good but the last season or 2 of East Bound and Down gets pretty dire. The comedy is still there but it just gets stupid and is proof that you need to know when to end a show.
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I've only seen the first season of Eastbound and Down. How much more is there? I guess I know what I am watching next. I have seen VP and it's incredible, from start to finish, just like Gemstones.
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Every McBride/Hill show is better than the last. They just keep getting better and better. Finally watched the new episode. Any time young Jesse was speaking, I had to do a double take that it wasn’t actually McBride. I know we’ve been singing this kid’s praises for half a decade now but he REALLY completely embodies McBride in a way I’ve never seen any actor pull off. Little bit of a shame to get an Interlude episode without Goggins, but he had no room in this plot. Probably my favorite episode of the season. Really tying the plot together and getting us a better sense as to what this season is about.
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Cojawfee posted:Fiiiixins is good but the last season or 2 of East Bound and Down gets pretty dire. The comedy is still there but it just gets stupid and is proof that you need to know when to end a show. insane take, 3 might be the best season and 4 is so good
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Mandrel posted:insane take, 3 might be the best season and 4 is so good The Sports Sesh stuff was great. Some of my favorite stuff from the series.
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The Lindsey Lohan cameo in Eastbound and Down is perfection.
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Mandrel posted:insane take, 3 might be the best season and 4 is so good 
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Looking at the wiki, season 3 was fine. Season 4 started going off the rails and I was ready for it to be over when I was binging when Kenny started becoming even more lovely than he ever was before.
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Cojawfee posted:Looking at the wiki, season 3 was fine. Season 4 started going off the rails and I was ready for it to be over when I was binging when Kenny started becoming even more lovely than he ever was before. I loved everything about Dakota the wolf subplot in season 4 of eastbound, especially Kenny/McBride wearing deep arctic expedition gear when recapturing Dakota in the freezing 52 degree Fahrenheit woods of South Carolina. Interlude 4 of Righteous Gemstones was pretty good. The ages of the children actors sync up extremely well to the mental ages of the 3 main Gemstones. Judy Gemstone will always mentally be a 11-16 year girl lashing out, Jesse Gemstone will always mentally be a 13-19 year old boy born on 3rd base thinking he hit a triple (american baseball reference), and Kelvin will always be the coddled baby brother of the Gemstone trio.
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find a way to show young bj, cowards
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Finally watched Gemstones over the last month after reading the first page of this thread and all caught up. Loved most of EB&D, watched the first episode or two of VP and never kept going. Gemstones is a treasure. VP's cruelty is probably what kept me from going on with it. EB&D probably would have benefited some from a little softening, or maybe it's just my taste. Definitely the characters in Gemstones are a bit more rounded and the tone isn't so straight up mean. But reading all the praise about VP makes me want to give it another go. Does it soften at all after the start? There's an opening in EB&D where the Principal is having sex with his girlfriend and tells her he's going to just have a few more pumps and counts them out then it cuts to the title screen and song  . I love it so much. Keef's openings with the Lucifer song dance and the satan piss soliloquy cutting to the opening in Gemstones have a similar feel. So good. You have clothes like a loving dickhead is the line that I can't let go of from EB&D. These days I'm just walking around the house shouting out Uncle Baby Billy. Therapeutic.
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I tried watching Vice Principals but it was just too powerful for me, it caused me like, physical anxiety. I think I'm gonna have to steel myself and go in again.
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I’m pretty sure the pilot episode is meaner than the rest of VP
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You have to at least get to the acid episode of VP Very Powerful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YzjV_4cli8 Er poo poo thats missing the part where they decide their new home is under the bleachers
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VP is at it's meanest when they commit a hate crime in the third episode. After that it does soften - Gamby starts to grow over the course of the two seasons and the show kind of does with him. Russell does not, but he learns about the power of friendship and the show does great things with and to him. The finale is wonderful.
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I don’t understand the joke, what kind of barbarian would patronize an establishment without fixins? Am I crazy or does Jesse feel the most relatable of McBride’s roles? He’s still a cartoon rear end in a top hat man, but Gemstones combines more humanization with more equally weird assholes around him. There’s no equivalent to Gamby vs his ex’s extremely chill, fairly realistic new husband. I guess I just get why Jesse ended up that way, whereas Gamby and Powers are forces of nature. Edit: upon a few more seconds’ consideration, if Amber had left him after the rear end shooting and dated someone else, Jesse absolutely would have responded with look-em-ups, firebombings, shootings, heists. Idk something bad. Maybe he isn’t that much better than Gamby. idkacat fucked around with this message at 19:53 on Apr 16, 2025 |
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We all have friends we do car pranks with.
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Didn't see it mentioned but I can't help think that some of what we see ties into Kelvin's sexuality as he gets older. He's clearly curious and is aware of what sex is. But it's sinful. His brother had sex and now his life is basically over, his sister is starting to lust after older men (and we know how that goes) and when he indulges in his own curiosity a masked intruder breaks into their home and terrifies him. Anyone else might let that go, but if you're raised in an environment where you're taught to believe that even your thoughts can have consequences then it's easy to see why he struggles with it. And then there's Simpkins, ready to dredge it up again.
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I appreciate how the intruder in the second (?) episode was clearly Michael Rooker, based on the credits at the end, but it was thankfully never given enough time to try and be some sort of mystery when his character was finally shown.
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Has anyone watched the movie Arizona? It's weird and super dark and not really very good and it has seemingly made no impact. Danny McBride gives a very Danny McBride performance.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Has anyone watched the movie Arizona? It's weird and super dark and not really very good and it has seemingly made no impact. Danny McBride gives a very Danny McBride performance. I saw it, I thought it was fine. Danny's performance is definitely the most interesting thing about it. It's fun to see him take that danger/mania inherent to his persona and follow it through to an actually disturbing, violent place in the context of a non-comedic setting He really has that quintessential star quality. He doesn't disappear into characters; Any character he plays has that foundation of him/his persona, but he manages to make them all so different in their execution, nuance, and complexities and all so wholly authentic feeling no matter how mundane or way out on the edge of surreal. He plays every variety of masculinity so specifically and convincingly. And you really can't imagine anyone else playing the characters he's played. He has a natural humanity to him that comes through no matter how big he's playing it, a distinct look and style, even a weird kind of sex appeal if I'm to understand from the tiktok thirst traps I've seen. dude belongs up there with the greats pretty wild that he had zero aspiration to act and still basically thinks of himself as a writer and director, both of which he's also killer at man I hope that Smokey and the Bandit project he was developing is still moving forward. Obviously his crew would be the only people I trust at all adapt those movies, but also he would just be so loving good as the Bandit.
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Yeah, agreed wholeheartedly. He's really got It.
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rewatching s2 interlude and spotted a little bit of set dressing i never noticed before relevant to the conversation earlier about whether or not baby Kelvin openly perusing hot guy magazines was incongruous or not. this is one the wall of his room when baby Billy is in there on the bunk bed https://imgur.com/a/2wXO6uB
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Mandrel posted:I saw it, I thought it was fine. Danny's performance is definitely the most interesting thing about it. It's fun to see him take that danger/mania inherent to his persona and follow it through to an actually disturbing, violent place in the context of a non-comedic setting This is a great way to put it. He's still doing his usual shtick but scary.
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