SERIES PREMIERE: This new HBO series stars Walton Goggins and Danny McBride as rival candidates for a retiring principal’s position at a high school. Bill Murray makes an extended cameo as the outgoing principal, but doesn’t have much to do. It’s fun to watch Goggins, so astounding as a star of The Shield and Justified and a recurring guest star on Sons of Anarchy, dive headlong into a purely comedic role – but the tone of the comedy is uncomfortably uneven, with one trashing-a-home scene extended to the point of unfunny absurdity. Kimberly Hebert Gregory co-stars. It’s worth sampling, if you’re curious, and especially if you enjoyed HBO’s previous comedy, Eastbound & Down, in which he played a similarly abrasive character. For full reviews, see Ed Bark's at Uncle Barky's Bytes and David Hinckley's at All Along the Watchtower.

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