The Righteous Gemstones

Mama said don't but I did it anyway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-znj7Uf9Oo

Any word on this new McBride show, The Righteous Gemstones? I only literally this moment learned of its existence from a random website ad.

― Dez Tekken (Old Lunch), Thursday, August 22, 2019 9:09 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

I watched the first episode, it continues very much in the same vein as his previous two HBO shows - same type of characters, same type of dialogue, same type of conflicts/themes. First ep alternated between mildly amusing and artfully crafted disturbing.

― Οὖτις, Thursday, August 22, 2019 9:13 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

well on second thought maybe it was just the very end that was "oh yikes so uh now this is happening"

― Οὖτις, Thursday, August 22, 2019 9:15 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

Second episode was pretty damn good tho I thought Walter Goggles was going to be in it. Edi Patterson is great and Keefe (the ex-Satanist guy) is just about perfect.

― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, August 26, 2019 1:20 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

Appearance of Goggins in ep3 def kicked this up a notch

― Οὖτις, Sunday, September 1, 2019 6:36 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

We enjoyed the first ep, but it was a bit of a letdown after two eps of On Becoming a God in Central Florida.

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, September 1, 2019 7:05 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

I kinda want every episode to just introduce/focus on a new bizarre family member (fingers crossed for stevie janowski appearance)

― Οὖτις, Sunday, September 1, 2019 7:17 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

"let's see those balls ..c'mon!" lol that was p funny, glad Goggins has turned up.

― calzino, Sunday, September 1, 2019 10:00 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

This might be the highest male:female nudity ratio i've ever seen on a show

― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, September 1, 2019 3:40 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

Also more Goodman in ep 3 too, which doesn't hurt.

― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, September 1, 2019 3:43 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

really liking this

― johnny crunch, Monday, September 2, 2019 10:46 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

some serious Scorsese/Casino vibes with that opening cash-flow montage in the last ep

Feel like this is better than Vice Principals, the bigger cast/broader range of focal points work in its favor

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, September 11, 2019 11:18 AM (three weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

Damn still haven't even started this. The Deuce came back this week (?!)

― DJI, Wednesday, September 11, 2019 11:22 AM (three weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

the youth minister and his ex-satanist sidekick are chefskiss.jpg

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, September 11, 2019 11:35 AM (three weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

Feel like this is better than Vice Principals, the bigger cast/broader range of focal points work in its favor

nah, (so far) this has a huge serious core topic that is just a hook to hang tomfoolery upon; Vice Principals treated a very tiny unimportant position as massively important, for greater fundamental comic effect.

also more & better Goggins.

― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Wednesday, September 11, 2019 1:35 PM (three weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

(nb not saying that Gemstones is not v funny and entertaining, just defending Vice Principals)

― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Wednesday, September 11, 2019 1:37 PM (three weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

next weeks ep looks like a good flashback one from the teaser, with hopefully much more Goggins.

― calzino, Wednesday, September 11, 2019 1:38 PM (three weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

kinda wanna poll the wigs/hairstyles on this but Goggins would probably take it easily

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, September 11, 2019 2:00 PM (three weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah, hoping the teaser is not in fact merely teasing a whole episode of flashback

― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Thursday, September 12, 2019 2:12 AM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

Never made it all the way through vice principals, but i’m enjoying gemstones a lot. i’m not finding it particularly laugh-out-loud funny though, especially compared to eastbound and down. the most consistently funny characters are judy and keefe, but even they are more smirk-inducing than anything

― normal fucking rockman (voodoo chili), Thursday, September 12, 2019 4:31 AM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

holy shit M. Emmet Walsh

― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, September 15, 2019 11:01 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

Vice Principals never quite hit for me, although I was watching in binge fashion having not watched it as released.

Gemstones is great so far and the existence of a well-plotted backstory and history really paid off in this week's flashback episode

"Uncle Baby Billy" will never not be funny

― untuned mass damper (mh), Monday, September 16, 2019 8:07 AM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

some background on the song: https://www.fastcompany.com/90404022/how-misbehaving-catchy-righteous-gemstones-earworm-came-together?utm_msg=c2ljJ3MgZ29ubmEgaGF0ZSB0aGlz

― untuned mass damper (mh), Monday, September 16, 2019 8:11 AM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

holy shit M. Emmet Walsh

yeah I did a double-take at that one

― Οὖτις, Monday, September 16, 2019 8:31 AM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

"runnin through the kitchen with a pickle in my mouth" is a line worthy of George Jones

― Οὖτις, Monday, September 16, 2019 8:33 AM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

I feel like this is just way richer than Vice Principals tbh. Probably deserves it's own thread

― Οὖτις, Monday, September 16, 2019 12:51 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

just add "(also Righteous Gemstones)" to title

― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Monday, September 16, 2019 1:10 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

or poll the McBride / Hill / Green cinematic universe and let it clunkily become the default thread for the next decade regardless of how many other series and films they make

― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Monday, September 16, 2019 1:12 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

I am not a mod

― Οὖτις, Monday, September 16, 2019 1:56 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

omg Righteous Gemstones is a blast !

― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, September 19, 2019 7:51 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

runnin through the house with a pickle in my mouth, misbehavin!

― Mommy...can I go out and VAPE tonight? (voodoo chili), Thursday, September 19, 2019 7:53 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

that's right, the whole house. that's what makes it. Brine everywhere!

great show

― maffew12, Thursday, September 19, 2019 7:54 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

I can't abide about 99% of US comedy but am thoroughly enjoying this.

― calzino, Thursday, September 19, 2019 8:06 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

who is the actor playing the evil stuntman? I was trying work out who he reminded me of and when it came to me it was the bad cultist leader in Lord Of Illusions.

― calzino, Thursday, September 19, 2019 8:08 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

Scott MacArthur, who I think I last saw on the show The Mick on Fox?

― untuned mass damper (mh), Thursday, September 19, 2019 8:47 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

ohhh that's where i remember him from! (hopefully also answer's calzino's question)

― I'm a board man. Board man gets paid (Will M.), Thursday, September 19, 2019 1:55 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

I didn't see Vice Principals, but this new show is one of the most tonally strange things I've ever seen. We're on episode 4, I think, and often it feels like watching a show set in some alternate universe of gangster preachers, stuntmen and raving Satanists. Which ... I guess it is? But it's so ott cartoonish without being funny like a cartoon. Or maybe silly without silly-show laughs, because it's interrupted by violent showdowns and gun waving in place of slapstick? I dunno, it's weird. I think we like it, though sometimes I have to ask myself what the fuck I'm watching.

― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, September 21, 2019 2:20 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

some of it is cartoonish, but have you been following the Falwells lately?

― untuned mass damper (mh), Saturday, September 21, 2019 4:21 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

For sure! But violently feuding with rival preachers isn't cartoonish, it's dark, especially as depicted here, which doesn't seem comedic, or even satirical. Now, preachers as actual crime families *is* perfectly satirical, and I do like the show, but like I said, the tone is all over the place. I don't know what to call it, even though black comedy maybe comes closest?

― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, September 21, 2019 4:28 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

the satan worshipper rave party seemed pretty awesome imo

― untuned mass damper (mh), Saturday, September 21, 2019 4:43 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

It did! It was insane! My wife was all, wait, what city is this!?

― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, September 21, 2019 4:45 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

That's why it feels like an alternate universe. There's this cabal of preachers, but there's also enough Satan ravers to fill a warehouse.

― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, September 21, 2019 4:49 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

McBride and crew are not about realism ime

― Οὖτις, Saturday, September 21, 2019 5:13 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

Nope! It's totally surreal.

― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, September 21, 2019 5:58 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

https://youtu.be/gPbVRpRgHso

― Chris L, Saturday, September 21, 2019 7:04 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

wow, that is transparently the inspiration for those scenes. Still, JiC and fam correct in that I don't see an orgy breaking out of it.

― Tart Prepper (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, September 21, 2019 9:53 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

xpost Holy shit!

Anyway, my broader point was not any lack of realism, it's that the dramatic stuff is (and is played) more serious than the comedy stuff is funny, which makes everything kind of discordant. In episode 4, for example, you've got the wife on her assault weapons course, which is ridiculous but not terribly funny, or particularly played for laughs. Or in the previous episode, I think, you've got McBride's crew, who are inherently funny, but the scene with McBride threatening the guy with the stiletto knife to his throat is ... not funny, even of the situation is similarly ridiculous. Or in this most recent one, McBride and his wife in the car chase, also silly, also not funny, or played for many laughs. Tonally crazy.

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, September 22, 2019 4:31 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

I guess I remember Eastbound being more overlty funny, but I suppose from Pineapple Express to Halloween, this awkward tonal mix has sort of been McBride's and David Gordon Green's jam.

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, September 22, 2019 4:44 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

I don't know what you're accusing him of, but those are just some guys he does car pranks with.

― Tart Prepper (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, September 22, 2019 7:33 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, September 22, 2019 7:47 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

vice principals had the same weird tone imo. a lot of it was just really dark. both shows are great. i just want more stevie

― dynamicinterface, Sunday, September 22, 2019 8:15 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, September 22, 2019 9:21 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

also

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, September 22, 2019 9:21 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

Scott MacArthur is in this too? Man I gotta get my hands on this show, it sounds like it'll be ace.

― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Sunday, September 22, 2019 6:39 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

But violently feuding with rival preachers isn't cartoonish, it's dark, especially as depicted here, which doesn't seem comedic, or even satirical.

Violently feuding high school teachers also isnt terribly realistic, and some of the shit those 2 did to the other principal was HORRIBLE and dark. Thats the point of the stuff McBride does, right? Yer on board with it or not, I guess.

― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Sunday, September 22, 2019 6:41 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

Def needs some stevie

Xps

― Οὖτις, Sunday, September 22, 2019 7:17 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

Just to reiterate, I like this new show! Just hard to get a handle on. Dark crime family drama heist comedy satire?

BTW, I know he's getting older, and playing a character, and has lost a lot of weight, but Goodman just seems so kind of last-role tired in this. Like, literally tired. Hope he's ok.

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, September 22, 2019 7:24 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

It’s called acting

― untuned mass damper (mh), Sunday, September 22, 2019 7:36 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

I think, outside of making everything over the top, what the McBride/Hill shows do is a caricature of excess that is ridiculous on its face rather than crafting an intricate plot about white collar crime or an intrigue about minutiae. And then they smash all the caricatures together. Do megachurches do things to lure people away to their own congregation to the point of sabotage and rumor? Sure, but that’s not nearly as obvious in screen as just smashing things, or as ridiculous and funny

The theory posited elsewhere that their shows have a deeply Protestant feel, that all sins are forgiven if you repent (or repeatedly have to repent) or that you’re one of the chosen because you’re moneyed, works for me. It’s like a guy in a hole who isn’t getting any closer to the surface but occasionally runs into a gold nugget as he burrows deeper. You can’t be both successful and wrong.

― untuned mass damper (mh), Sunday, September 22, 2019 7:45 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

def lacks fred flintstone exuberance

― Tart Prepper (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, September 22, 2019 7:54 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

well, yabba dabba fuckin’ doo

― untuned mass damper (mh), Sunday, September 22, 2019 8:01 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

i thought the make up on goodman was pretty impressive in the flashback episode. his neck looked 20 years younger.

― dynamicinterface, Sunday, September 22, 2019 8:12 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

I liked the detail that his office staff called him “doctor”

― untuned mass damper (mh), Sunday, September 22, 2019 8:16 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

got his yabba dabba fuckin' doctorate

― Tart Prepper (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, September 22, 2019 8:18 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

ehh it’s a living

― untuned mass damper (mh), Sunday, September 22, 2019 8:20 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

I'm gonna wait in the car. You stay here and make yourself cum.

― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Sunday, September 22, 2019 9:03 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

the surfing line jesus christ

also Tiffany's piano repertoire

i fucking love this show

― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, September 23, 2019 1:27 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

a deeply Protestant feel, that all sins are forgiven if you repent

surely this is more a Catholic point of view?

Luther believed that redemption was already baked into humanity. Jesus died on the cross FOR you. Calvin believed in predestination. doesn't matter how much you repent.

― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, September 23, 2019 2:57 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

I do like the idea of ott caricatures doing regular things. Usually in shows and movies it's regular people doing silly stuff. In this it's silly people doing serious stuff. Like, McBride is innately funny and funny-looking and his arrogant line readings are funny, so when you see him waving a gun you expect it to be funny, too, but it's not, not really. Same with Goggins, a kind of goofy looking dude on a good day magnified to 100 in this, but then his behavior, while still ridiculous, is nowhere near as ridiculous as the way he looks. Or Kelvin, that character is such a cartoon, but he's (so far) almost the most sincere of all of them, and Keefe (!), for being a big weirdo, is at least something of a real success story in this preacher world.

And yet even beyond that the show has no problem with good old dumb humor, too, like making fun of Mrs. Baby Billy's teeth, which is a real Farrelly Brothers thing to do.

Re: religion, this world is straight up prosperity gospel, right? Which is Protestant.

(Back to Goodman, btw. Yeah, acting. I hope! Because when he was overweight and breathing heavy in every scene, that sure wasn't acting.)

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, September 23, 2019 5:03 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

xp I think it's more that the "repenting" involves public self-flagellation and has absolutely nothing to do with personal moral clarity. Catholic repentance is between you and God, with a priest as a mediator in confession. The more evangelical position is that you have to do it in front of everyone.

― untuned mass damper (mh), Monday, September 23, 2019 7:16 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

"Why do you want to shave your pussy?!"
"So I can surf faster, JESSE!"

― mh, Tuesday, September 24, 2019 3:57 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

shit, Misbehavin is a *serious* earworm

― Οὖτις, Thursday, September 26, 2019 8:25 AM (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Loved her in VP but Edi Patterson is simply amazing in this.

― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Thursday, September 26, 2019 9:32 AM (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink

I liked the detail that his office staff called him “doctor”

I never went to a church on par w Gemstones but this was def a ‘thing’ coming up in a Southern Baptist Church. like congregants reeeeeally leaned on that shit.

― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Thursday, September 26, 2019 9:35 AM (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Loved her in VP but Edi Patterson is simply amazing in this.

yeah she's a highlight, interesting to see the female version of the standard McBride sputtering and delusional/blustering failure sorta character

― Οὖτις, Thursday, September 26, 2019 9:37 AM (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink

while simultaneously implying all manner of disrespect when they’d refer to a black church’s “””Bishop”””

fuck can we just tax all these motherfuckers like yesterday

― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Thursday, September 26, 2019 9:37 AM (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink

xpst

― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Thursday, September 26, 2019 9:37 AM (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink

really want an anigif of Goggins clogging tbh

― Οὖτις, Thursday, September 26, 2019 9:38 AM (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah she's a highlight, interesting to see the female version of the standard McBride sputtering and delusional/blustering failure sorta character

yes! I loved that she absolutely smoked it on stage though, ala Kenny Powers when the chips are down

― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Thursday, September 26, 2019 9:40 AM (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol yes Misbehavin slaps

― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, September 26, 2019 9:42 AM (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Nice to see Patterson is also a writer and producer

― Chris L, Thursday, September 26, 2019 9:49 AM (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink

starting to think this might be the best thing McBride & co. have done yet tbrr

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, October 1, 2019 8:15 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Direction is definitely a bit showier, and the plot construction seems more deliberate and complex with all the flashbacks and shifting focus around the various characters. A bunch of Scorsese-esque tracking shots and flashy camerawork (lol'd at the vomiting-on-the-viewer/inside-the-toilet shot)

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, October 1, 2019 11:36 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

should this be split off? I could c&p the thread

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, October 1, 2019 2:10 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

it's too damn good to not have it's own thread.

― calzino, Tuesday, October 1, 2019 2:13 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

agreed

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, October 1, 2019 2:18 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

"but Mr. Baby Billy..."

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, October 1, 2019 2:18 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

well that's ugly as hell, sorry

makin up a new thread
pastin from the old thread
misbehavin

Reposting in a thread with a pickle in my mouth

I love my bisexual son

This video of a preacher checking his phone while speaking in tongues is my favorite video on the internet right now pic.twitter.com/I9iqZpCQmF

— deathray (@nuns_on_film) October 1, 2019

i just thought i'd post this worst ever attempt by a preacher to speak in tongues, whilst he is pissing about with his phone, because it is quite in the spirit of this very fine series.

"OK I know this is disgusting guys, but lets look at the bright side .. no-one else in this room fucked a prostitute except for Chad Ok?"

i can't believe it's already almost over. good car pranks last night

lol car pranks

is there a gif of the villain scotty guy rage squeezing apart his steak sandwich pls

no but there is this

https://media2.giphy.com/media/d8ESjTraIsYSya8dW3/giphy.gif?cid=ecf05e47e8bd88325233b1ccf166b9385db845ffbf8b8f7e&rid=giphy.gif

http://media.giphy.com/media/cInA7KwT6JCPUppXIj/giphy.gif

http://media.giphy.com/media/cInA7KwT6JCPUppXIj/giphy.gif

Scotty is a villain in the new BB movie as well.

anybody know what that song was over the end credits of the last episode?

was this it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVNLkvvJAdM

yes!! man wtf is that, never heard of them

i've only heard the name but honestly wasn't familiar w them. i think they've been used a couple of times in RG..?

lol yeah this one too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qNd2j62xNQ

good shit. Kenney Buttrey!

anyway this was p amazing, was dying at the siblings reassuring each other

I've been enjoying this more than any of the previous Danny McBride shows

"please son ... let these catholics and liberals help these folks get their clean water"

Great season finale. Judy is terrifying. We still don't know how their mom died, do we? is another season confirmed?

"the cops came." "... how are they?"

loved the finale, curious to see where the show goes from here. hoping for another season, but this could totally have been a satisfying series finale.

it has been renewed

praise!

"Misbehavin'" and "Misbehavin' (1989)" are both on Spotify btw

it's in my head constantly since watching the show, i don't know if i want to encourage that

he did a restraining order on me so i bought him a jeep grand cherokee to prove i loved him

I know it's the McBride/Hill/Green stock in trade, but by the end I had trouble sticking with the radical tonal shifts back and forth from melodrama to silly to bizarre. I did like how it all wrapped up, but it's just so odd to watch these outright lunatics and weirdos in a "real world" story of redemption and family. I mean, when Kelvin goes full Danzig? That's amusing, but also totally ridiculous, just like the return to the ott sex club goth dance party dungeon rave to rescue Keefe, though that did contain my favorite joke, when Kelvin talks to the head goth and threatens him with his "seven years of Taekwondo" and the guy immediately backs down, intimidated. Lots of great moments like that throughout the whole show, of course, just felt like broad sketch characters dropped into the real world. My wife loved the whole show, though.

And xpost omg That *was* Scotty in the Breaking Bad movie. Acting!

Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that this show's 2019 season is nominated in the 2019 ILX TV poll:

ILX's Best Television of 2019 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends January 31

If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (4 minimum, 25 maximum, organized by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail by end of day today. It'll take five minutes; get to it!

so i have just discovered "misbehavin'" and yeah, that is not exiting my head for the next week.

runnin' through the house with a pickle in yr mouth

the shuffle back STEP

hello i finally started watching this :D

praise the lord

love it. gf and I just finished it last night. i watched it one time all the way through when it came out , but this time was much more better. Edi Patterson is ooc!!

shes not from the US but loves some OG ‘prestige’ tv (sopranos, deadwood) as they can serve as a sort of quick and dirty cliffs notes to the US Project. . damned if the McBride trilogy doesn’t fill in the gaps

Edi Patterin is a treasure

omg this show
the music is so great! skatt bros “walk the night” over ep 7 closing credits? hallelujah

New Righteous Gemstones stills dropped, happy weekend pic.twitter.com/yAGjdqGmo6

— Screamer Jim (@HeheWaitWhut) October 1, 2021

Your prayers have been answered. #TheRighteousGemstones returns January 9 on @hbomax. pic.twitter.com/uEmdOZaSQy

— HBO (@HBO) November 5, 2021

new season jan 9

:D

Definitely some funny moments last night, though I'm really not sure I like the storyline getting set up for Eli this season. We'll see.

My wife thought it was funny that they cast such a good looking guy for a young John Goodman, but such a, well, unique, looking guy for a young Eric Roberts, when you'd expect the opposite.

i loved it! a memphis wrestling backstory? hell yesss

Oh I buy the backstory and am totally into that part, it's the knock off effects of Eli's behavior at the end of the episode I'm not sure I bought into.

“how’d you get that shiner?”
“i go out at night as a costumed crime fighter”

Kelvin’s now looking even more like that now-disgraced worship leader that Bieber, etc were associated with

the god squad disciples are v funny

lol yes, and I love how that was just dropped in with no build up or references, just bam! two vans full of buff as hell dudes roll up

a van-full of socks full of walnuts

This final episode was dumb and silly and I guess worked, because the show is ultimately kind of dumb and silly but works.

I thought the toilet baby was a tad too dumb and silly, even for this show.

the tone of this show is all over the place. that's what makes it cool though

main thing I didn't like is that trope where one person figures out the twist, then a second person figures it out in a different way before the first person can tell them. I wonder if maybe the episode was originally supposed to be 15-20 minutes longer.

Not so much Coen Brothers as Farrelly Brothers.

Edi Patterson (Judy Gemstone) was in Violent Night playing the daughter of a rich matriarch, and her character's name was ..Alva Lightstone

the uncle baby billy costume at the beginning of s3e3 is killing me

goggins stays winning

Glad to have this show back, but it's gotta get in line.

Dying at the shoe throwing in E2.

Car chase was exciting

LMAO at the Y2k product line

this puerile nonsense keeps repeating itself - and that's why I enjoy it so much!

stephen dorff with this tan & goatee is giving me a little bit of a late-career Luke Perry vibe & I am not mad about it <3

I loved the crassness of the dead wife hologram presentation and John Goodman smashing it into pieces!

I love the musical cues. Yanni!!!!!!
and the closing song from the flashback episode, bee gees in full psych mode.

xp the wife glitching back and forth with DMX was amazing

lmao new episode was a hoot!

also loved the sturgill simpson cameo

Holy fuck the finale was crazy even by this show's standards

crazy awesome & … kinda moving??!

Yeah just finished it, that final scene with the monster truck rally did a great job, as is this show's bread and butter, of being an absurdly over the top parody while still getting the benefit of the emotional beats of the thing it's parodying

as, crazy as the locusts were, all the Bible Bonkers stuff that preceded that was even more, uh, bonkers

yes! the hurricane thing was so stupid & hilarious … and the DANCERS omg

with Tiff at the piano!

god that whole fucking sequence...

ahaha Tiff on piano was hysterical

also the “you’re not my daddy” scene in the dressing room had me wheezing

I rewatched a bit because I missed some dialogue and there’s a moment where Jesse is putting Dusty and his wife in the little isolation thing for safety during the locust scene and Amber asks “what did he say?!” because Jesse was inaudible over the isolation and the locusts and Dusty interpreted it as “he’s looking for titties” and I cracked up

yes! the hurricane thing was so stupid & hilarious … and the DANCERS omg

― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, August 3, 2023 9:48 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

excuse me, they’re not dancers, they’re “bonker boys”

i stand corrected lol

this is the bonkers part of the program!!

Could listen to Walton Goggins say “Baby Billy’s Bible Bonkers” for an awfully long time without getting tired of it

We've been cruising through the current season not least because my wife *loves* this show, but honestly I've been struggling a bit with the relentless assholery of everyone (albeit mitigated by the pervasive puerile weirdness of the whole enterprise). It's kind of just a trashy(er) "Succession," though again, soooooooo weird.

Finished this season. This show is so bizarre I can't believe it's on the air, let alone chugging through multiple seasons. It's like HBO gave a bunch of precocious home schooled 15-year olds and their dads a blank check to just explore their general batshit ideas and crusade for on-screen dick depiction.

so what youre saying is it’s glorious

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It's not like this is the first successful Jody Hill/Danny McBride joint on HBO. Clearly it's a thing people like.

It's funny, my wife *hates* his other shows, she just likes this one.

But yes, praise be, this show is somethin'.

Eastbound & Down rules
Haven’t seen Vice Principals

vice principals also rules

and perhaps uncoincidentally contains some very high-level Goggins

Vice Principals is a riot

when you see early Goggins in The Shield you don't much of a sense, or at least I didn't - that he had the potential to be so fucking funny

baby billys bible bonkers

colds, flus, streps...even covids

the people they casted as young Jesse, Judy, and Amber are so insanely spot on it's kind of freaky

also I gotta say I appreciate the way this show makes each season its own separate plotline where there aren't any real cliffhangers during the season finales. as much as I like great longform dramas like Better Call Saul and Succession it is pretty irritating to have to wait 18+ months between seasons by which point you've forgotten a lot of what's happened in the last one

such a weird show all over the place in tone and genre like some weirdo korean movie, but the real attraction is shithead dialog, i prefer eastbound and down cause its totally focused on danny mcbride taking shit but i gotta say edi patterson is on his level, judy gemstone amazing work

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yeah the actor who plays young Jesse is uncannily good at mimicking McBride's delivery (Judy less so, imo, but that's a tall order for a young actor), it's kind of mesmerizing.

I like how the flashbacks show how scripted the show is. The characters seem like they stem from the actors so much, I would have assumed there was a lot of improv.

frogs otm - I feel like there is an actual term for it and I can't remember what it is, but it came up specifically around the early seasons of Sons of Anarchy, where every year there'd be a huge cliffhanger that would set the tone for the following season, but things would always eventually wind up status quo anyway by the end of the season, and lots of prestige shows would do that and it drove me nuts.

I like that Gemstones usually resolves theirs by final episode because the fun of the show is just how bizarre it is, the weird, abrupt tonal shifts between hilarious and serious-as-a-car-crash, the one-liners, the constant sibling rivalry, Goodman's constantly fluctuating accent, etc.

I will say this last season was my least favorite though. I think season 2 was my overall fav

The scene with "All the Gold in California" was really lovely, I keep rewatching it

such a weird show all over the place in tone and genre like some weirdo korean movie

yeah there's definitely something very odd about it - outside of McBride's other shows what it most reminds me of is Arrested Development, both in that it's about a family of spoiled adult children and in how dense and incredible the comedy writing is. like there are jokes all over the place in this show, and they're often all over the frame too - if you rewatch an episode you'll catch a lot of stuff you missed the first time because there's so much there and they don't try to draw your attention to every funny thing the way a lot of bad comedies do. and most of the characters are so inherently funny that you could laugh at nearly any line they say, like there are 30 quotable bits in every single episode, and even the little reaction shots are hilarious. but then suddenly the show will switch into a high-stakes drama, or an action movie with very expensive-looking car chase scenes, or like a Ryan Murphy show where it goes so over-the-top you don't know how to react, and it all comes off strange because it's primarily written like a comedy. There's a lot more attention to detail in the funny bits than there is the plots it seems - I like the plots but they do often telegraph exactly what's going to happen, only to switch it up with a plot twist that would be impossible to see coming, the sort of thing that the dramas it tries to imitate sometimes wouldn't really be able to get away with. but I love the show anyway, if nothing else I appreciate the willingness to make something so bonkers out of what must be a pretty huge budget.

STOP SAYING "PUSSY"!

S3 finale was, by the way, one of the most bonkers episodes of TV I think I've ever seen, it's so crazy that when Peter apparently survives a massive explosion with nothing but a missing leg your only reaction is "well this show is a little fast n' loose with reality sometimes"

he could decided to run away from it at the last minute and just got hit by some shrapnel or whatever