Vice Principals is an American dark comedy series created by Danny McBride and Jody Hill. It premiered on HBO on July 17, 2016, and concluded on November 12, 2017, comprising 18 episodes over two seasons. It stars McBride, Walton Goggins, Kimberly Hébert Gregory, Dale Dickey, Georgia King, Sheaun McKinney, Busy Philipps, and Shea Whigham.
The series was produced by HBO Entertainment while McBride, Hill, and David Gordon Green served as executive producers through their production company Rough House Pictures.
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At North Jackson High School, foul-mouthed vice principal Neal Gamby has ambitions of becoming the principal. However, when the current principal steps down, he reveals that he trusts neither Neal nor his Machiavellian co-vice principal, Lee Russell, and instead hires outsider Dr. Belinda Brown. Neal attempts to get the school faculty to veto the appointment, but Belinda makes a positive impression on the staff with her goal-oriented agenda and popularity with students. The effort backfires, so he conspires with Lee to ruin Belinda's reputation and install one of them as principal. As their scheme unfolds, Neal and Lee gradually self-destruct, as their own biases and loathsomeness alienate Belinda and the rest of their co-workers.
