The Righteous Gemstones

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