I kinda want every episode to just introduce/focus on a new bizarre family member (fingers crossed for stevie janowski appearance)
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 1 September 2019 14:17 (four years ago) link
"let's see those balls ..c'mon!" lol that was p funny, glad Goggins has turned up.
― calzino, Sunday, 1 September 2019 17:00 (four years ago) link
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, 1 September 2019 22:40 (four years ago) link
Also more Goodman in ep 3 too, which doesn't hurt.
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 1 September 2019 22:43 (four years ago) link
really liking this
― johnny crunch, Monday, 2 September 2019 17:46 (four years ago) link
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, 11 September 2019 18:18 (four years ago) link
Damn still haven't even started this. The Deuce came back this week (?!)
― DJI, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 18:22 (four years ago) link
the youth minister and his ex-satanist sidekick are chefskiss.jpg
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 18:35 (four years ago) link
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, 11 September 2019 20:35 (four years ago) link
(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, 11 September 2019 20:37 (four years ago) link
next weeks ep looks like a good flashback one from the teaser, with hopefully much more Goggins.
― calzino, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 20:38 (four years ago) link
kinda wanna poll the wigs/hairstyles on this but Goggins would probably take it easily
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 21:00 (four years ago) link
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, 12 September 2019 09:12 (four years ago) link
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, 12 September 2019 11:31 (four years ago) link
holy shit M. Emmet Walsh
― With an Extreme Burning (aka The Tormentor) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 16 September 2019 06:01 (four years ago) link
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, 16 September 2019 15:07 (four years ago) link
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, 16 September 2019 15:11 (four years ago) link
yeah I did a double-take at that one
― Οὖτις, Monday, 16 September 2019 15:31 (four years ago) link
"runnin through the kitchen with a pickle in my mouth" is a line worthy of George Jones
― Οὖτις, Monday, 16 September 2019 15:33 (four years ago) link
I feel like this is just way richer than Vice Principals tbh. Probably deserves it's own thread
― Οὖτις, Monday, 16 September 2019 19:51 (four years ago) link
just add "(also Righteous Gemstones)" to title
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Monday, 16 September 2019 20:10 (four years ago) link
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, 16 September 2019 20:12 (four years ago) link
I am not a mod
― Οὖτις, Monday, 16 September 2019 20:56 (four years ago) link
omg Righteous Gemstones is a blast !
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 19 September 2019 14:51 (four years ago) link
runnin through the house with a pickle in my mouth, misbehavin!
― Mommy...can I go out and VAPE tonight? (voodoo chili), Thursday, 19 September 2019 14:53 (four years ago) link
that's right, the whole house. that's what makes it. Brine everywhere!great show
― maffew12, Thursday, 19 September 2019 14:54 (four years ago) link
I can't abide about 99% of US comedy but am thoroughly enjoying this.
― calzino, Thursday, 19 September 2019 15:06 (four years ago) link
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, 19 September 2019 15:08 (four years ago) link
Scott MacArthur, who I think I last saw on the show The Mick on Fox?
― untuned mass damper (mh), Thursday, 19 September 2019 15:47 (four years ago) link
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, 19 September 2019 20:55 (four years ago) link
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, 21 September 2019 21:20 (four years ago) link
some of it is cartoonish, but have you been following the Falwells lately?
― untuned mass damper (mh), Saturday, 21 September 2019 23:21 (four years ago) link
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, 21 September 2019 23:28 (four years ago) link
the satan worshipper rave party seemed pretty awesome imo
― untuned mass damper (mh), Saturday, 21 September 2019 23:43 (four years ago) link
It did! It was insane! My wife was all, wait, what city is this!?
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 21 September 2019 23:45 (four years ago) link
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, 21 September 2019 23:49 (four years ago) link
McBride and crew are not about realism ime
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 22 September 2019 00:13 (four years ago) link
Nope! It's totally surreal.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 22 September 2019 00:58 (four years ago) link
https://youtu.be/gPbVRpRgHso
― Chris L, Sunday, 22 September 2019 02:04 (four years ago) link
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), Sunday, 22 September 2019 04:53 (four years ago) link
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, 22 September 2019 11:31 (four years ago) link
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, 22 September 2019 11:44 (four years ago) link
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, 22 September 2019 14:33 (four years ago) link
lol
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 22 September 2019 14:47 (four years ago) link
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, 22 September 2019 15:15 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-2lwUKPySA
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 22 September 2019 16:21 (four years ago) link
alsohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSsVsRNv4q0
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), Monday, 23 September 2019 01:39 (four years ago) link
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), Monday, 23 September 2019 01:41 (four years ago) link
Def needs some stevie
Xps
― Οὖτις, Monday, 23 September 2019 02:17 (four years ago) link