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The Righteous Gemstones - Season 1
It is a comedy series about a family famous in the world of television trying to establish their religious empire. The religious family is dealing with a long tradition of deviation and greed in order to spread charity work. The family struggles with many threats to their religious empire, as they continue to spread the good word and daily charity they try to materialize on a daily basis.
1 August 2000, California, USA
23 November 1981, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
13 November 1967, Marshall, Minnesota, USA
4 May 1988, Seattle, Washington, USA
August 16, 2019
As with [Danny] McBride's previous HBO shows, Gemstones delicately balances the ridiculous and extreme with surprisingly subtle character moments that keeps the show from drifting too far away from legitimate emotion and humanity.
August 16, 2019
McBride and Hill's comedies sometimes take a while to land on the right tone, and maybe that will be the case with this one, too. But for now, it's a show about a spiritually bankrupt family that hasn't quite found its own soul.
August 16, 2019
Gemstones operates at a much grander scale than Vice Principals' shabby high school or Eastbound's minor league baseball diamond. And scale means opportunity.
August 16, 2019
The show already feels like McBride's best work, with the needle threading the tiny spaces he has to operate inside to make a show about terrible people work. Your mileage may vary, though. And that's fine.
August 15, 2019
The Righteous Gemstones is hallelujah-worthy for its performances, energy, comedy, dramedy and occasional little heart tugs.
August 16, 2019
It's the Danny McBride way. Go big or go even bigger.
August 16, 2019
The laughs are usually there, even if the thoughtfulness isn't. And, to be fair, Gemstones gets better as it goes along.
August 14, 2019
Putting characters first is rarely a bad idea with ongoing TV series, and McBride ensures viewers will want to keep coming back just to see more of what this cast can do.
August 16, 2019
The Righteous Gemstones is uneven but solid and engaging; I'm already dying to know what happens next. In a way, it's reflective of the megachurches it skewers: It's so easy to find yourself dazzled and buy into it completely.
August 14, 2019
This is a decent show that could quickly become good or even great. All the pieces are there, even if McBride seems to be struggling at the beginning to put them together into one convincing sermon.