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- 2019
- TV-MA
- HBO
- 2019
- TV-MA
- HBO
Summary The world of a famous televangelist family led by Eli Gemstone (John Goodman) and his grown children: Jesse (Danny McBride), Judy (Edi Patterson) and Kelvin (Adam Devine) is explored in this comedy from McBride.
Created By: Danny McBride
- 2019
- TV-MA
- HBO
- 2019
- TV-MA
- HBO
The Righteous Gemstones
Season 1 Premiere: Aug 18, 2019
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7.3
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Summary The world of a famous televangelist family led by Eli Gemstone (John Goodman) and his grown children: Jesse (Danny McBride), Judy (Edi Patterson) and Kelvin (Adam Devine) is explored in this comedy from McBride.
Created By: Danny McBride
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 40 Critic Reviews
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78% Positive
31 Reviews
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23% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 40 Critic Reviews
73
78% Positive
31 Reviews
31 Reviews
23% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
The beauty of McBride, Green and Hill’s small-screen triumph is the way in which it couches its over-the-top exclamations in fittingly lewd and preposterous scenarios. McBride’s Jesse is the corrupt soul of these proceedings, his arrogant greed and ambition almost as great as his pathetic longing for validation from both his father and his peers (at whom he sneers). He’s complemented by one of the best casts in television.
Gemstones delicately balances the ridiculous and extreme with surprisingly subtle character moments that keeps the show from drifting too far away from legitimate emotion and humanity.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 94 User Ratings
7.3
76% Positive
71 Ratings
71 Ratings
10% Mixed
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
15% Negative
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 94 User Ratings
7.3
76% Positive
71 Ratings
71 Ratings
10% Mixed
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
15% Negative
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
As a massive fan of both Danny McBride & Jody Hill, I went into this show with high hopes, and I'm happy to say it has not let me down yet! This time around, the drama & world-building truly take center stage, letting the comedy fill in all the blanks. If you've enjoyed any of their past projects, this one will no doubt fill your heart with joy as you learn more about these wonderfully crafted characters. I'm absolutely dying to see the rest of the season, and so happy to say that Season 2 is right around the corner!
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The direction of Gemstones, together with its whip-smart editing and consistently top tier music cues, helps push the series toward darkness as much as the unscrupulous behavior by its characters. It also has its garish heart revealed in riotous costuming, bizarre framing – get a load of the gleaming white spires and towers of the gilded Zion’s Landing – and craven decision making, which only makes the world it’s built for itself come even more weirdly to life.
HBO's new comedy The Righteous Gemstones is likely to resonate with the audience that embraced his previous HBO comedies and perplex those requiring more conventionally "likable" characters. ... The Righteous Gemstones is coarse and enthusiastically performed, with punchlines that don't always hit for me, but the first six episodes have highlights of surprising potency.
Season two of “The Righteous Gemstones” is an ambitious, intermittently hysterical mess. McBride and Hill attempt to expand the show outward, often into full-on action set pieces that, while impressive, fail to find cohesion with the rest of the series. Coupled with forgotten plot lines and lost characters, it’s a disappointing step-down.
When [John Goodman] gets the spotlight, there are hints of the show The Righteous Gemstones could’ve been.
Danny McBride at his comedic best, John Goodman is not mailing in his performance either— very clever writing thus far, and hopefully it can continue.
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The Righteous Gemstones is a hilarious parody of corrupt megachurches. The megachurch scam is one of the oldest in the US and is satirized in both a chastising and humanizing way in this show. The action is fun, the parody is spot on and the jokes land in many different ways. The show can be extremely cerebral and poignant at times, but then hit you with extremely funny monologues and callouts directed at the church. It dips into absurdity at times, but always with purpose and with delightful execution.
The main characters and supporting characters are all cast perfectly and John Goodman really gets to show off quite a lot.
If you're formerly religious and looking for somecatharsisor still religious but dislike the corruptionandpoliticization of the church, you'll love this show. Even if you're just a fan of great comedy, this show is at least deserving of a watch.
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The show is far too sympathetic of these scumbags. They are portrayed as kind and heartfelt. Sure they are selfish and stupid, but they are also lovable in a way that is off putting and starts to feel soap operatic. Also, more jokes beside men screaming and cussing might be interesting....? But that's kinda all the creators are interested in. The whole thing falls apart midway through the first season. This is classic dude bro nonsense for fairly typical Americans. In all it's efforts to be raw, or ****'s pretty much mainstream blandness. The over praise is just due to it's lazy appeal. This show will vanish as soon as it's seen. It is vapid.
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They forgot to write jokes. Most of the time is spent reigning in the scope of the characters, their massive houses, and the stadium-sized mission of their work. Precious little time is left over for a **** joke here and there, the occasional personality quirk. I think writing a show with this sized universe makes a writer nervous that if they focus on a scene that they'd be neglecting something else. With so much to space to handle, precious detail of what makes a show good is lost.
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So so so so so bad. Oh look, kinda funny clothes. Oh look, kinda funny haircuts. Oh look a **** group without the courage to actually say anything truthful or insightful about it. Not a single laugh in the first three episodes. Smug, "look-at-how outrageous we are" insider crap that's hysterical to the writers of the show. They can't believe how funny they are. Only Danny McBride couldn't make a hyena laugh. I swear he has pictures of HBO's wife. How the hell does he keep getting work? I watch this with spite in my heart and I love/hate every minute of it. Never again! More please! Hate you, McBride.
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Production Company:
- Home Box Office (HBO)
- Rough House Pictures
Initial Release Date: Aug 18, 2019
Number of seasons: 4 Seasons
Rating: TV-MA
Awards
Satellite Awards
• 7 Nominations
Hollywood Critics Association Television Awards
• 3 Nominations
Hollywood Professional Association Awards
• 3 Nominations
