New This Week
The powers that be tell us “Deep Space Nine” will never come to HD Blu-ray, but at least the DVDs are finally cheap, with the new 7-season DS9 complete-series set selling for $89.96. That works out to less than $12.85 per season.
That’s heap of savings:
DS9 season one alone currently sells separately for $69.98 (new) or $28.22 (used).
DS9 season two alone currently sells separately for $39.95 (new) or $21.67 (used).
DS9 season three alone currently sells separately for $36.28 (new) or $23.22 (used).
DS9 season four alone currently sells separately for $39.21 (new) or $14.96 (used).
DS9 season five alone currently sells separately for $36.99 (new) or $22.68 (used).
DS9 season six alone currently sells separately for $38.00 (new) or $28.50 (used).
DS9 season seven alone currently sells separately for $40.84 (new) or $27.92 (used).
I’d wager you’ll like “Vice Principals”
McBride and Walton Goggins (“Justified”) play the title characters, bitter dimwits who vie for the top job at their high school after its principal suddenly retires to care for his ailing wife.
The pair, who sport drawls worthy of any “Walking Dead” character, are appalled when their superintendent fails to promote either of them and instead installs as principal an outsider -- Dr. Belinda Brown, a heavyset, northern-educated woman of color unwilling to indulge their idiocy.
For those tuning in to see Bill Murray as the outgoing principal, know that – much as he did for Amazon’s “Alpha House” – he appears in just two scenes in the first episode before disappearing thereafter. (He may not have any dialogue in the second of those scenes.)
... an occasionally funny but most often bludgeoning comedy. …
... Like its predecessor, “Vice Principals” goes all in for profanity and the trading of childish insults (“Keep walkin’, sassypants” is one I can quote), and there is a certain melodic delight in hearing Goggins pronounce the multisyllabic bad words the basic-cable rules kept from him saying on “Justified.” But the comic returns do diminish. …
If you can get through the first two puerile episodes — and that’s a big if — of Danny McBride and Jody Hill’s mean-spirited school comedy “Vice Principals,” you’ll probably notice a much better and possibly smarter work of satire lurking just out of reach. ...
The San Francisco Chronicle says:
... The first episode doesn’t begin to suggest how far “Vice Principals” will go and how funny it will become. However, you can readily appreciate the chemistry between McBride and Goggins. …
... enjoyable if you don’t expect too much from it. …
... bewilderingly awful …
... an unwelcome insight into the mind of small-minded assholes; a farcical love letter to insensitive pricks. In that way, it follows in the footsteps of “Eastbound & Down,” the last collaboration between McBride and executive producer Jody Hill. … It feels often as if the show cannot contain the anger and resentment it is trying to tap into, and instead of doing the work of converting it into comedy, it has just unleashed unpleasantness into the ether. …
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Ballers 2.x [Blu-ray]
Brooklyn South: The Complete Series 
Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks
Game of Thrones 5.x [Blu-ray]
Mystery Science Theater 3000 IV
Rizzoli & Isles 7.x
Rizzoli & Isles: The Complete Series
Snoopy Tales
Victoria (Blu-ray)
The Weapon Hunter 1.x
This Week
From Dusk Till Dawn 3.x [Blu-ray]
LEGO DC Super Heroes: Justice League: Gotham City Breakout/Cosmic Clash
My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic: Exploring The Crystal Empire
Penny Dreadful: The Complete Series [Blu-ray]
Power Rangers Dino Charge: The Complete Season
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Complete Series ($95.99)
227 1.x
The Twilight Zone: The Complete 1980s Series
Next Week
Beavis & Butt-Head: The Complete Collection
Mercy Street: Season 2 [Blu-ray]
Quarry 1.x [Blu-ray]
February 21
Doctor Who: The Return of Doctor Mysterio [Blu-ray]
Transformers Rescue Bots Vol. 10
February 28
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Best Of Blue
A Place To Call Home 4.x
March 7
Care Bears And Cousins: Vol 2
DCI Banks 5.x
Quantum Leap: The Complete Series – (Blu-ray) 
Star Trek: Voyager - The Complete Series
Suspects 5.x
That '70s Show - The Complete Series - Flashback Edition
Wentworth 2.x
You Me Her 1.x
March 14
As Time Goes By Remastered: Volume Two
CHiPs 5.x
C.O.P.S. - The Complete Series
Earthsea - The Complete Miniseries
Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors - The Complete Series
Marco Polo - The Complete Miniseries [Blu-ray]
Newhart 8.x
Pee-Wee's Playhouse: The Complete Series
Power Rangers: S.P.D.: The Complete Series
Wacky Races: The Complete Series
Z Nation 3.x
March 21
Brokenwood Mysteries 3.x [Blu-ray]
Death Valley Days 3.x
Master of None 1.x
Scott & Bailey 5.x
When Calls The Heart: The Heart Of Faith
Wolf Creek 1.x
March 28
Mystery Science Theater 3000: Volume XXXVIII
Planet Earth II [Blu-ray]
April 4
Diff'rent Strokes 5.x
The Good Wife: The Complete Series
Medium: The Complete Series
Silent Witness 18.x
April 11
Veep 5.x [Blu-ray]
April 18
800 Words 2.x Vol.1
Home Fires 2.x (Blu-ray)
Killjoys 2.x (Blu-ray)
Pound Puppies: Lucky Time
April 25
Animal Kingdom: The Complete First Season [Blu-ray]
Gekisou Sentai Carranger: The Complete Series
Peanuts by Schulz: Go Team Go!
June 6
Last of the Summer Wine: Vintage 2007
November 14
Last Tango in Halifax: Season 4
