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

If this show were canceled after the first season I would have been fine. At the same time, I am kind of looking forward to starting this new season.

First episode was pretty funny, felt a bit Coen Bros. at times in its operatic ott-ness. Forgot Eric Andre was in this. Could probably watch 45 minutes of the siblings insulting each other, which tbf is what this show often feels like.

I wonder which will be the first show to kill off a character with covid? Wouldn't put it past this one.

Well you didn't forget, Eric Andre wasn't in the first season.

I forgot he was cast I meant.

Oh gotcha, considering season 1 wrapped up over two years ago it's understandable to forget things.

is the Jesse storyline a nod to Succession?

im with josh in that i wouldnt have missed this if it went away but happy its back.

my fear with streaming comedies like this is always that they'll get too plotty and think that i'm actually invested in the epic story of this family or w/e when all i want is laffs. but the fact that i remember almost nothing that happened in the first season is helping me in that respect to make it feel fresh. if they just deliver at least 1 or 2 good sibling schoolyard-insult bickering matches i'll be a satisfied viewer.

Jesse trying to get ahead of his siblings is very Falwell-esque, judging from some of the articles I’ve read

They’ve thrown in so many threads from different evangelical figures

yah totally but also it's the same storyline as the current most popular show on hbo

I think the interview (maybe linked here?) had McBride mentioning he hasn’t watched Succession but who knows

I mean, I don't think it's really similar to Succession all that much. Only Jesse is striving to take over for his dad, the other two kids just seem to be fighting for his attention more than anything else. And Eli has been pretty definitive, repeatedly, about the "I'm not going anywhere" and isn't like dangling the job over his kids' heads so they can fight over it.

yeah its a pretty obvious plot element to explore for a show about a powerful patriarch and his ambitious children. i cant imagine that when they set up the universe & all the characters in season 1 that they were thinking about succession, a show that had just premiered

First, I think this season may be funnier than the first. Second, at the same time it's really leaning into violence and gore (which has been a DGG/MCBride mainstay since at least Pineapple Express). Three, in the middle of the long God Squad segment, my wife, who likes this show more than I do, nonetheless muttered "I think the writers are having just a little too much fun," and then when the episode was over kind of grumbled "what a weird show."

No matter how over the top and ridiculous this show gets, Edi Patterson is a goddamn treasure.

I wonder how many takes it took John Goodman to very sheepishly recount the entire story of why he had blood on his pants

Tbh given his sleepy performance I'd say ... one.

Wait, did we ever find out why he was riding the rollercoaster? Especially after he supposedly seriously injured his nuts?

shooting b-roll for that ad where he’s a thumb

The difference in Eli’s reaction to BJ’s family and the way his kids reacted feels like it captured a generational difference pretty well. Eli’s kind of passive-aggressive about “oh, you’re secular, sure, we’re here if you need us” while Judy and her siblings act like saying “we’re secular” is an affront to their very existence.

Not that BJ’s family is completely normal, kind of dweeby (his sister is KJ!). But this nice family, with a loving stepdad, seem to genuinely work well together and their support for their son, mild riffing on how weird the whole baptism celebration is, was an excellent reminder of how far off the norm the Gemstones are. And the Gemstones reacting was o_O

Edi Patterson and Tim Baltz both absolutely killed it in this episode, just a joy to watch. This show usually has a pretty good soundtrack but last night's was particularly killer.

I havent thought much abt the show since 2019 and honestly forgot most of S1, so this season a few times I've found myself watching the characters and assuming that deep down they're not actually religious, since I'm so used to seeing characters like this eventually get exposed as fully nonreligious grifters. And then I'll catch myself feeling surprised when we're reminded that the Gemstones, or at least Eli, are believers who take what they imagine to be their religion seriously, even if they are also objectively amoral monsters. Like Eli is a hypocrite and grifter, but would still totally have been thrilled if BJs family ever decided to get baptized.

There are a few gems in this article that reminded me of the show:
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/01/inside-jerry-falwell-jr-unlikely-rise-and-precipitous-fall

Well I mean Sherman's not hiding it!

On August 24, 2020, Falwell resigned from Liberty in the wake of a sensational tabloid scandal that could have been dreamed up in the writers’ room of The Righteous Gemstones.

Yeah, a little on the nose but I don’t know how you could publish this in 2022 and not say that!

I kind of wonder how many times “one of the kids watches someone in the hospitality business have sex with their spouse” has been rejected in the writing room as too easy. At least once?

although, wasn’t the investigative reporter’s line that he had questions about how Eli’s wife had treated servants? eek

it's probably not really that funny but I did hoot with laughter at "she was a toilet baby"

it was good. baby bill is always good

glad other people really want to find the closing credit song from righteous gemstones s2e4 pic.twitter.com/txLKvOtCde

— Doug Avery (@averyvery) January 25, 2022

amazing

I was halfway listening to that as I did the things you do as you end a show, stand up and stretch, gather up your bowl of popcorn, and paused as I noticed they were doing a bizarre credits song thing

songs that only exist in one instance, haunt your dreams, etc

BJ’s whole baptism party including the playlist & romper w cummerbund was outstanding

That’s wild, I thought that song might be a weird cover. My wife Shazammed it and it of course turned up nothing.

Holy shit did this episode take some turns.

The bit with Baby Billy explaining the “toilet baby” thing, it’s not quite an economic or social class difference, maybe oversharing and not judi g your audience, but BJ’s family going from awkward nodding to revulsion. And they’re not bad people for being revulsed because it’s just so weird and gross to have this stranger explain it that way, in that place. And oh god when she says she wasn’t a poop

haven't caught up yet, but the third episode of this season had me doubled over in tears. love this show.

i could watch a whole episode of nothing but the Gemstone kids ripping on each other at Sunday brunch

Eric Andre pulling out the guitar and soloing and then making everybody fall over.....dying

i could have watch 10-15 more minutes of just that

pretty sure that was him playing too, Eric Andre went to Berklee apparently (things I didn't know prior to today)

I’m only up to the first season flashback episode so maybe I shouldn’t click this thread but I just wanna say the actor for teen Jesse was almost too on-the-nose

Jesus christ last week's episode

Omg THIS week's episode.

Grandpa Roy killed Glendon Marsh!

ok just finished S1, one thing that was kind of bothersome/funny is that Jesse never figures out who is blackmailing him. you keep expecting him to have that Breaking Bad Hank sitting on the toilet moment but he doesn't get it until it's literally told to his face. its especially weird when they show the actual scene and it's clear that there's only ONE PERSON who could've actually filmed him...otoh the central theme of this show is that all of the characters (save for Eli) are pretty dumb

well, we found out the reason for the rollercoaster riding!

so there's really no chance that Junior didn't kill Thaniel Block, because he knows what happened to his dad somehow, and is out to destroy the Gemstones, right? that last scene of him flipping his gun was unsettling af.

also "EVERYBODY STOP SAYING 'PUSSY'!!!"

I didn't find it as funny as the last ep but still highly enjoyable.

most of it was disturbing and creepy rather than funny, but I found it compelling for that reason. some eps just go full on pathos.

yeah pretty mad tonal shift this week

I feel like the shift was necessary, the baptism party was so hilarious and OTT that trying to 1-up it already would be a misfire.

Wow at finding that mini McBride.

I realize that watching this show for the plot is missing the point, but at the same time, they keep throwing plot at us, and knowing this is the same team behind (among other things) the most recent shitty and sloppy and stupid Halloween movies, I have no faith the dangling threads and detours will lead to anything. For example, the brutal murder of the journalist and all the other people at that house, sure, it's possible or likely we'll get more on that. At the same time, that kind of carnage would make headline national news for weeks on end. Or Gideon Gemstone, he was more or the less the entire focus of season one, but he's barely been in this season. I realize we are seeing this show more or less through the self-obsessed eyes of the Gemstones, but still. And then again, I guess we did find out why he kept riding that rollercoaster.

Unrelated, I love Walton Goggins, but anyone else notice how sweaty he is in all his scenes? Not intentional sweat, either (which would suit the character), just inconsistent speckles of sweat on his face in half his scenes that either the make-up people have missed or maybe just can't keep up with? Could it be a choice? Perhaps, but it's so subtle and inconsistent I doubt it. Sets can be hot, and he's a pretty physical performer. But so's everyone in this show.

i'm....almost definitely sure we are going to see the journalist/house murders tie back. I am fairly sure that was Junior's doing in an attempt to take down the Gemstones in some kind of massive framejob or something

the journalist might also have been lying about why he was investigating the Gemstones. Aimee-Leigh was "rude to staff"? seems a rather thin reason for a hit piece.

possible that Junior gave Thaniel a tip that Gemstone might have killed his dad and Thaniel lied about the reason for wanting to interview Eli so that he'd agree to be interviewed.

pretty sure the main plot arc of the season is:
1. where did the money come from
2. what is Eli hiding
3. who killed the journalist because he might have found out about 1 & 2

that guy that started out as Eli's accountant seems like a very wholesome man

Pretty sure Eric Andre and his wife were behind at least the attempted hit at the end of e4.

Eric Andre and his wife = Virgil Solozzo? would be an interesting touch.

Goggins is spectacular in this. my first cousins and I have a text chain going about how the Baby Billy character reminds us specifically of one great uncle and various other distant relatives from my mother’s south Mississippi family.

the “natural water birth” bit 2 weeks ago made me seize up so hard my girlfriend thought I was going to need medical attention

lol, the same

this show would be better as just a comedy but on the other hand i do appreciate how weird what it is is

I do appreciate how they spent the last 20 minutes of Season 1 and the beginning of Season 2 showing the Gemstones as finally being a more unified unit, other than ripping on each other at lunch, but by the end of S2E1, it had already unraveled.

Pretty sure Eric Andre and his wife were behind at least the attempted hit at the end of e4.

― Chris L, Thursday, February 3, 2022 9:52 AM (forty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah for sure you could see how upset they were by jesse and amber pulling out of the deal, they really needed that money are prob in deep financial distress so they figured theyd kill eli who was supposed to be on that bus and then jesse would be in charge and give them the cash

was thinking maybe the time share development was just a scam to get the money from the gemstones and whoever else and they had no real intention of building it

i totally forgot about them stealing Eli's bus!

also lol at completely breaking the hidden text in that reply

feel like if youre not up to date and dont want spoilers then dont read the thread, pretty standard agreement, also reading the hidden text is annoying on zing you have to tap through to the individual message view

oh i don't care about it, just find it funny.

lord I'm mad that so much happened in Ep 5 I forgot about the bus shooting AND that it wasn't even supposed to be their bus.

Lol, almost reaffirming my own point, I totally forgot that just the *previous episode* ended with machine guns being sprayed at the stolen bus. There's a lot of insane shit going on here, not least that M. Emmet Walsh has looked like he's 100 for 40 years.

xpost Jinx! We both forgot!

lol make that three of us

This is kind of going how I feared in the sense of being a sort of post-Coen Bros crime-caper show first and a comedy second. Were there even any jokes at all in the last episode after the opening "nobody say pussy" scene? And even as a wacky crime show its still very watchable, but I just really wish they were more invested in making me laugh.

Judy rapping an Eazy E song at the end

its really a dark action dramedy thriller with musical elements, the only thing i can really compare it to is one of those gonzo korean movies like the host

hard not to think of what it could be if it were more focused tho, like if it were just a very dark surreal comedy, more like a coen bros movie, or in between that and eastbound and down, or really what i want a very dark eastbound and down, cool show tho i really cant complain, i do not like the flashback eps tho replacing judy and jesse with child actors is a buzzkill

i've liked them cos we get Jennifer Nettles as Aimee-Leigh and it gives a nice glimpse into how things turned out the way they did, but I do miss the adult kids when that happens.

this seems to be McBride's least reprehensible character, which is sayin' something.

idk jesse is pretty bad

BJ's reactions in this scene are incredible

https://i.imgur.com/FoLQbZs.mp4

someone spotted this during the Christmas scene lmao

https://imgur.com/AoTdrRu.jpg

haa

Surprised how much this revolves around Eli now…when I started watching I assumed they were gonna kill him off in the first few episodes

My prediction is they are going to kill him off at the end of the season and they're getting as much Goodman in before then as they can.

they should name him John Greatman after this

loved him since he showed me the life of the mind

What a weird show this is. McBride, Green, Hill ... from Pineapple Express to Halloween, just this surreal world of buffoons and assholes and the violence they do. It's kind of a campy Coen Brothers, sure, but there's something more (or less?) going on with this crew.

was disappointed at the short length of this one, pretty shocking ending, but as soon as Eli got in the car, I knew what was coming.

it's pretty obvious that Junior had nothing to do with the hit, because even he couldn't coordinate a retaliatory hit that fast, and he seemed more perplexed than anything as to why he was visited, and with the Lissons gone so long, I tend to agree with upthread that it's a Godfather/Virgil Sollozzo styled hit lead by them to get to the money.

So who massacred the journalist and all those other dead/burned bodies?

hmm. did Jesse ever mention them to the Lissons?

i legit don't remember

Yeah, no idea! I'm not sure it's even been mentioned again in the show. Maybe the journalist and those other people all died shaving their pubic hair.

Eli mentioned the journalist in front of Junior. The killing methods couldn't be more different. Journalist still most likely done by Junior, Eli, or the local passerby upset about the rental

Tim Nesbit could not live in New York, no way

*Tim Nesbitt, excuse me

Eli mentioned the journalist in front of Junior. The killing methods couldn't be more different. Journalist still most likely done by Junior, Eli, or the local passerby upset about the rental

― Bixby in a Samsung I know it's Siri-esque (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, February 7, 2022 7:08 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

yeah when junior put someone after eli he sent a big ol wrastler not some slick motoboys

maybe Thaniel's head just....did that

over/under on whether, after they realize it's the Lissons, Chad shows up at their ranch and starts trying to strangle him with a guitar string and whispers "Jesse Gemstone says HELLO!"?

Certainly Eric Andre fulfills Ebert's Law of Economy of Characters.

dont rule out gideon who has a history of fucking with his fam

I'm not sure I'd rule out Baby Billy somehow either.

can't rule out Aimee-Leigh either

its gotta be eric andre hes got the motive and he would have the cool motobois too

what if Joe Jonas is actually the man at the top of that operation?

he does have tremendous presence

im just thinkin bout the eli/gideon motorcycle transition from the season opener

Good memory! Also, would kind of justify Gideon being all but AWOL this season; I think his siblings have had more lines than he has.

Gideon is interesting, but it's hard to piece together a motive for killing Eli. He is mad about getting the Grandaddy Roy house? He didn't seem that upset about it, and it would likely fall on Jesse. I suppose he may now be too loyal to Jesse and his mother, killing Eli to help them out? It seems likely that he'd love his own Grandfather. Perhaps he's discovered something about Eli's past and views it as hypocritical and/or revealing his own inner mean streak.

idk iirc gideon in the bible tests god three times so maybe this is a 3 season arc lol

the bikers are the 4 Jonas brothers, right?

Well they finally gave Gideon something to do huh

i did find it funny every time they chased the motorcycle gang, only to face a hail of bullets, like they didn't anticipate they would shoot at them.

lol at Gideon using the underside of the motorcycle as a shield.

and throwing star in BJ's head, lol.

fwiw I feel like if you were on a moving motorcycle and started firing an automatic weapon like that the recoil would throw you off the bike pretty much instantaneously

lotta plot threads to wrap up in these final two episodes, seems clear that the bikers were sent by the Lissons and that Junior probably knows Eli likely had something to do with his Dad's disappearance but its still pretty unclear what happened to Schwartzman's character. thinking one of these eps is going to show that whole scene

There has to be at least one episode in every Hill/McBride show where you finish an episode and wonder, “what the fuck did I just watch?”

this one definitely had some of that energy

I understand they want to delay the reveal payoff a little longer, but it was driving me nuts that neither Jesse nor Gideon walked over and yanked off the bikers' helmet.

Poor Keefe gettin' poked in the eye.

totally called that right before it happened

xp The way this season has been, they probably all shook it off and got a move on before they had a chance.

This was bizarre. Loved it.

totally called that right before it happened

I did too, but I can't say I anticipated the particular, er, angle we'd get on what happened.

This was some quality ridiculously awesomely bad (so, awesome) television. All the barfing, the well telegraphed glory hole telescope to the eye, the ninja star in the head, the cattle prod holster ... basically next level fucking around what-the -fuckery.

They did have that close-up (misdirect?) of a long-haired blonde guy in the audience at their sermon, then you see long blonde hair sticking out of a guy's helmet. The only long haired blonde guy I recall (besides Keef) is the wrestler that was sent to threaten Eli. But this show ... none of that shit really matters. This show is the kind of goof-off where you can clearly see a guy's long blonde hair sticking out from under a helmet, but when they go to unmask him it'll turn out to be Eric Andre. There's got to be something liberating about introducing a plot-heavy melodrama that has no interest in logic or reason or anything, just a hilariously indulgent goof, including all the stuff that's not funny. In that sense it kind of reminds me of "Arrested Development," and if "AD" hadn't done it first (?) "Gemstones" is the kind of show that I could have seen ending each episode with a "next week" preview of stuff that never happens.

MacCaulay CULKIN!!!!

for a show that has pretty short episodes, and short seasons, I really feel like they've been milking things since episode 5.

not that it wasn't 'good' per se, but there's been a lot of wheel spinning ever since episode 5.

Yeah with only two episodes left I was surprised a lot more didn’t happen there but the finale oughta be pretty good

Alright now I think Amber is behind everything.

well she did shoot one of them so

Not fatally

I haven’t charted out how it makes sense or anything, just have a feeling that’s where they’re going with it.

it still doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me since Eli was supposed to be on that bus and unless I'm forgetting something Amber didn't seem to put up much of a fight getting on it herself. also the Lissons are definitely involved, didn't they mention early on that they ran some charity for troubled teens or something? so that's who the cycle ninjas were. the idea that they would go through all this for just a $10m investment is kinda nuts so there's likely a bit more to the story. and it's still unclear what happened to the reporter and the two other people at his place. obviously the implication is that Junior did it but it kinda seems that he's just a low level goon? were any of those guys ever shown actually killing anyone?

reporter was killed by Baby Billy for not letting him use his HBO Max password anymore

wait I forgot they were orphans. which explains why they had "no records"?

the reporter said he had dirt on Eli's wife and we never found out what that was?

now she's yukkin it up with Uncle Baby Billy

MacCaulay was all, "fucking no way is my little brother going to be the only one with that premium cable show shine".

I don't think that was anything, just poking around to see if Eli would reveal anything. Junior did say that he came by to talk to him so I'm guessing the story was actually about Eli's wrestling goon past

I don't think Eli murdered anyone but I would guess that next week we're gonna find out that the story about why he had blood on his pants was not exactly true

yeah I think the dirt on Eli's wife was basically the reporter trying to 'relieve' Eli into thinking he didn't know anything about the REAL shit he was up to in his past, and that he'd be more willing to give a softball interview about his wife's rudeness and as a side benefit, could show he didn't duck teh reporter. but Eli don't roll that way.

Eli killed the reporter.

the reporter secretly sent back a video to his family back home and said IF I'M NOT HOME IN ONE WEEK, CALL THESE PEOPLE.

which were his motorcycle mafia friends. who he also bought drugs from.

I don't think Eli or any of the other Gemstones are murderers. besides Tiffany of course

maybe it's Torsten trying to get all da houses

eli got the blood on him cause hes a damn vampire, he became a vampire

i was thinking Amber maaaybe but reporter theory seems more “plausible”… not that anything is really actually plausible lol

how good was Macaulay tho
love a Culkin!

right Amber willingly stepping into a bus she knew Eli was going to be murdered in doesn't make sense BUT I did think the Gemstones maybe had their own drivers so the motorcycle crew knowing where they'd be was kind of odd. idk this show stretches reality quite a bit so I'm expecting something crazy

that said the one thing that really bothers me is that "Eli Gemstone" is his actual name, even when he was a goon slumming it in Memphis.

and yeah Macaulay Culkin was great, perfect casting

What a weird, goofy, bizarre show.

The signs at the rollercoaster were all time. "Thou Shalt Hold On," "Thou Shalt Have Fun," "Thou Shalt Loop the Loop" ...

You missed the best one “Thou shalt not be sick”

moving company in recent episode was called “Smooth Move”

s/out to the exlax commercial

Almost forgot the other gag, their warm-up vocalizing. "Children of the Corn," "Dane Cook" ...

the fake restaurants that seem real!

i cant remember if it was this ep or the one before it but i really liked when baby billy tried to peel out & trashed his trailer of health elixir

the chicken restaurant having a gravy version of the coca-cola freestyle machine kills me

one weird thing someone noticed is if you freeze frame the receipt of Baby Billy's purchases you find out the show is set in October 2022

maybe we’ll get the gravy machine by then

yeah there's a covid joke too, he claims his elixir heals it, which i totally believe

Saw a good theory that Kelvin might actually be the only one with real god-fueled powers. He prayed his father back to life, he bore the cross, he converted Satanist Keefe (more than once) and rescued him from the Goth rave tank, and so on.

interesting. yeah i was surprised to see him succeed this time at bearing the cross and have it not be explained beyond just that he was even madder than before (i guess?)

same, i expected a reveal of him rigging it somehow. it doesn't seem like the show's style to include actual supernatural elements but i guess anything's possible

ha i was gonna say the opposite honestly, i can totally imagine some kind of gonzo finale that includes someone ascending to heaven or an angel beating someones ass or something

(although i can just as easily imagine a nonspiritual finale that reveals he cheated somehow)

i just attributed Kelvin's feat to cinematic adrenaline, similar to how there have been IRL anecdotes of people of average build lifting a car or doing other impossible feats of strength in times of danger.

i am coming around to Amber doing it, in a way. esp since they didn't reveal the Lissons AND, Eli's dad comes around to giving them the money for the Lissons, but he only tells Jesse and not Amber, and Amber is still frustrated that he's not been elevated to his position.

perhaps she thought the heroism would ward Eli off if he heard his own kid got shot at.

idk

also she knew about Junior, and knew he could be an easy fall guy

she could easily shoot the motorcycle gang, too, they probably don't know who hired them

ha i was gonna say the opposite honestly, i can totally imagine some kind of gonzo finale that includes someone ascending to heaven or an angel beating someones ass or something

Given this show, I can imagine it concluding with Kelvin beating Satan in a rap battle.

well Baby Billy did have an NDE and in the last episode its revealed that he believes himself to be communicating with Aimee-Leigh from beyond the grave

Amber's involvement does make sense but I still don't feel she would willingly get on the bus if she knew Eli was gonna get murdered in it. either way it seems like the goal is beyond that $10,000,000 investment now

my brother pointed out that Amber knew that Eli was being moved from the hospital, so idk the benefit of willingly sending the gang to the wrong place.

re: the bus, if she set it up, then she told them to miss intentionally. it does seem hard to believe semi-automatic weapons at that distance spraying that area didn't even nick them.

Wow.

That failed maneuver to surprise the gunmen at the very end was hilarious

Haha yes

There were a lot of bizarre lols in this one

“We’d still like to be parents and child with you.”

Source of the attempted balcony trick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Zr-B5aIEvE

Thanks for linking the clip

I was trying to place which movie they were watching on the tv!

Characters trying to recreate a stunt they just saw in a movie when there are real stakes involved is... very in character for a McBride/Hill production

I was trying to figure out if throwing pillows out first in a haphazard fashion was supposed to cushion the landing

probably

Hi. Hello. Would you please come with me. I just looked someone.

Lol autocorrect

Let the waves slap them dicks

^ that line definitely got the biggest laugh from me. really snuck up on me.

I liked that the Lissons were shown to be just as inept as the Gemstones. They were basically exactly the characters that you assumed Jesse & Amber were. And Lyle really did want to be friends with Jesse! He thought he was doing him a favor! Yeah it's dumb as hell but it's neat when the criminal masterminds turn out to NOT be four steps ahead of everyone else at all times, and that in fact most of the twists are just them fucking up

glad they took care of him in the end too, nice to not leave any dangling plot threads

also lmao @ "everyone goes to heaven, even science guys"

totally missed the Young Guns homage. we were really confused about what was going on in that sequence. thanks for the clip, will share with my gf who didn’t grow up here and who I’m fairly certain has never seen YG

I really love how clunky the dialogue is in this series. idk how much is improvised but I dig how they talk like real people do, starting sentences without really knowing where they're going and all that. like what was that line they say to Gideon? "I'd like to continue being in a parent and child relationship with you" ??

funniest moment for me was Jesse trying to panic hide the body

I felt like the reveal of what went down outside the reporter's airbnb was a little bit of a letdown, which is crazy because everything that happened was over the top! Just so many episodes where the mystery remained.

Bringing hand grenades instead of guns and the reporter still dies from a gunshot because.. of course he does

A crazy but not surprising fact I looked up the other day is that the 3 McBride HBO shows have collectively only ever received one Emmy nomination: sound editing for Vice Principals season 2.

The scene with Kelvin's new youth group, the next generation of muscle men, was both a good parallel to the motorcycle ninjas and an extension of the incredibly awkward homosocial environment Keefe (or are we calling him Queef now?) and Kelvin exist in.

They actually said grooming

"You brought grenades?" did give me quite an LOL.

actually, I'm not someone who laughs out loud at the TV, I mostly only do that when around other people, but I was pretty much waking up the household the other night at this ep. made up for the disappointing previous episode by a long shot.

also, now there's a new definition for ABC besides "always be closing".

I think a big thread of next year will be an investigation into Zion's Landing, because there's no way the prominent investors could completely disappear not only from the investment, but from their megachurch/etc without people (like Joe Jonas) sniffing around, wondering what happened. like I'm sure some government officials might be interested in how the Gemstones suddenly acquired the entire project.

We also never found out what Schwartzman’s comment about Aimee-Leigh meant? Maybe someone w another grudge a la Junior.

he just wanted dirt on the Gemstones and was seeking an easy way into the conversation, an accidental admission.

yeah we see that with Lyle, he says "I know about you and the kids" and he fesses up right away even though they are talking about two very different things

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