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

and yet his purple latex pants were more shocking

Baby Billy went dong-out in his first appearance iirc

the man's always misbehavin'

Walton Goggins made it abundantly clear in his Architectural Digest video that he is very much a nudist

balls out, claws out

I’m like Tyler Perry! You’re more like….Luke Perry ... DEAD!

Keefe in Aimee-Leigh’s dress getting taken down by the German nanny was great

Lotta Baby Billy peen in this one too, almost surprised to learn it wasn't actually Goggins at this point.

Latest episode is an all-timer for Baby Billy. Might’ve been the funniest episode of the season.

Bless this cocaine

i'd say we should poll the characters for this but i'd be utterly surprised if it wasn't a clean baby billy sweep.

get yourself a corn-fed girl

judy telling dr. watson that he's gonna turn her into an "x-ray skeleton" made me lose it

I'm an episode behind but, even though it was telegraphed, Judy and Jesse jetpacking up to Kelvin's treehouse was hilarious.

I feel like there's been a reverse-correlation where as Jesse has gotten less drug-addled and more mellow over the years, Baby Billy has gotten progressively more druggy and feral

yeah at one point billy's coke use was more implied, now it is "god bless this cocaine so i can have the gas to beat this demon"

this season just hasn't sucked me in like the ones previous. I guess the ones that were more crime-heavy were more fun to me, though they've obviously set up a little of that here. though Kelvin's defiant comeback made the previous ep worthwhile for me (haven't seen this week's)

I would agree, this season has been a slight step down, but there still do manage at least two or three bits that make me laugh hard enough to forgive it. This is a great example of a stellar cast elevating an otherwise weaker written season. Probably a good time to end it though.

actually felt the opener was the high water mark, showing the entire Gemstones 'religious' throughline has always been a grift. Cooper was great too.

all the stuff w/ the kids whining about dad dating mom's friend was driving me nuts. so when they brought in the Kelvin "Top Christ Following Man" subplot it helped alleviate my aggravation with that.

flashback episode was great, I always enjoy those.

I have also enjoyed Doctor Watson a lot, especially since the monkey content on the back end of White Lotus season 3 was underwhelming.

the final scene in the lake house episode was funny enough to make the whole subplot worth it for me

WHO AH YOU

"Top Christ Following Man" is the funniest thing to say since "Baby Billy's Bible Busters." Followed by "Teenjus."

Sorry, "Teenjus" is number one on that list.

Teenjus is great cos of how stupid an idea it is but of course it gets greenlit by that crew

Is there a way you can combine teen + Jesus together that is clunkier than Teenjus? Probably not

The funny thing is it should be Teensus

you can't be calling jesus "jean"!

teen? sus

you wanna react, but you can't. cause you teenjus!

Plotting of the last episode was a total mess but there are always fun goofy character moments that do well to distract.

Yeah, my feeling as well. Total mess.

So many years down the line and I still can't figure this North Carolina crew out. Danny McBride is pretty funny at the one thing he does (hyper-arrogant idiocy?). David Gordon Green knows how to make a drama (though judged by his cinematic track record, maybe not comedies), and Jody Hill is clearly a solid team player. Yet together the three are just so often slapdash and lazily low-brow, like a better lit Farrelly Brothers. The Halloween movies really underscored that for me. Those reboots were just such an easy lay-up - all they had to do was not be bad - but the team (minus Hill) still found a way to mess them up, making them almost insultingly stupid, imo. The failure of that Exorcist reboot implies maybe people are onto them. And yet, their TV shows serve up such a gleefully ridiculous hodgepodge that they are almost always worth watching.

enjoyed this oral history of Danny McBride’s work: https://www.theringer.com/2025/05/01/tv/danny-mcbride-oral-history-eastbound-down-righteous-gemstones

That was good, thanks. It really underscores that for all the talented people around McBride, they're ultimately all just in his orbit.

i have finally got around to watching this show just now as it is ending. watched the entirety of season one in one sitting while sick.

also I have to say all the comments on here about 'tonal shifts' are really weird to me. like do you guys expect things to be 100% gonzo comedy or 100% doomy drama?

finale was so good. i'm gonna miss this show.

also I have to say all the comments on here about 'tonal shifts' are really weird to me. like do you guys expect things to be 100% gonzo comedy or 100% doomy drama?

― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, May 5, 2025 9:51 AM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

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I thought the storytelling of the last couple of episodes was very poorly conceived and nonsensical, which does kind of clash with the sentimentality they were trying to achieve at the end.

THAT BEING SAID I love the characters and their cartoonishly gifted way with words. So I still had fun and laughed a lot, but was just less engaged with the narrative.

the plotting was less tight this year than previous seasons but the performances and jokes are dialed the fuck in, so i don't really care.

the finale hit the right emotional beats too, imo

I loved how they called back to the "pray with me" bits with Bradley Cooper from the first episode, funny & great emotional payoff, just what I wanted out of the last episode of this show

there are all these mediocre western series playing out on various channels that I can't get into. Yet the first ep of this series totally outgritted all of that shit. That was a really good ep.

i'd say we should poll the characters for this but i'd be utterly surprised if it wasn't a clean baby billy sweep.

― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Tuesday, April 29, 2025 11:09 AM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

judy

yeah the plot was all over the place this season but it was just as funny if not funnier as previous seasons so I'm good with it.

best joke of the finale imo was the implication that Teenjus gets crucified

Finally caught up with the season/series finale and ... man, what a weird-ass show this was. Never much more than half-assed, never really ambitious or even aspiring to greatness, and yet, so utterly unique and bizarre in tone and execution that it transcended qualities of good and bad. Which this finale truly encapsulated, right down to every single totally predictable and totally unpredictable beat.

One missed opportunity? Having Eli quietly die in peace at the wedding like Don Corleone at the end of The Godfather. But gotta keep that door open, right?

Re: "tonal shifts," I mean, come on, this last episode alone had a secret-society duel, a Michael Jackson dance-off, an attempted out of nowhere mass murder that left the three leads shot and bleeding and a fourth person literally spurting blood from a headshot - lots of people shot in this episode, actually - a deus ex helper monkey, low-hanging stripper pole jokes, sentimental speaking-from-beyond-the-grave stuff, the anticlimactic end of "Teenjus" ... like I posted about a bit upthread, Danny McBride and crew are many things, but tidy and focused is not one (two) of them. When in doubt they love going the lazy route for easy laughs or plot contrivance (in both film and TV), but those are apparently features, not bugs, and the look and acting of the thing is always on point even if the story is so often pretty slapdash.

I don't think there's been enough appreciation for just how wild the costumes were in this final season

My wife noticed that when the siblings appeared together on their stage, for meetings, their batshit outfits were often often (always?) coordinated. Did you see what Keefe was wearing for a lot of this ep, what looked like a tank-top whose shoulder straps were attached with see-through wire?

https://preview.redd.it/keefe-wearing-this-influencer-top-has-me-dying-v0-cx6x6u5hmvye1.jpeg?width=1080&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=4ccb4031f7df7ed819e7f8d2bfc7c0336dea1612

In this last season probably like 50% of the laughs I had came from the costumes - and I mean that as a compliment. Keef's tank top was 10/10, I laughed every time I saw it

yeah I've always thought this show deserved an award for costume design more than anything, so many insane/incredible fits in every season but especially this one.

I thought this season was pretty good overall, as mentioned it was at least as funny as previous seasons if not moreso, but the show itself did seem to be coming apart at the seams somewhat. it felt a bit like the Netflix Arrested Development seasons where you could tell how much they had to work around everyone's schedules. it was kinda weird seeing some of the main cast from S1 barely appear at all this season. Amber and Gideon had what, 10 minutes of screentime total?