The Righteous Gemstones

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