The Righteous Gemstones

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:

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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

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— 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

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

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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