7.431 minSeason 2 • Episode 9
LatestThe school year comes to a startling end.
After North Jackson High's long-time principal steps down to tend to his ailing wife, Neal Gamby and Lee Russell, the school's vice principals, are forced to put their mutual disdain aside and form an unholy alliance in order to sabotage the newly appointed principal, Dr. Belinda Brown.
Acting
McBride and Goggins' volcanic chemistry burns everything down.
Direction
Jody Hill's unflinching camera refuses to let you look away.
Writing
Dialogue so wrong it circles back to poetry.
Creators
Danny McBride, Jody Hill
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Walton Goggins based Lee Russell's voice and mannerisms on a real theater director he worked with in Georgia.
The series was originally conceived as a film trilogy; HBO convinced McBride to compress it into two tight seasons, forcing the breakneck character arc that makes Gamby's redemption feel earned rather than endless.
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