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The Righteous Gemstones
Season 1
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Follows a world-famous televangelist family with a long tradition of deviance, greed, and charitable work.
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9 Episodes
The Righteous Gemstones
E1
Episode 1
The Righteous Gemstones
Upon returning from a baptism marathon in China, Jesse receives a video from blackmailers seeking to sully his reputation. Eli moves forward with plans to expand the Gemstone empire as he continues to mourn his late wife.
Is This the Man Who Made the Earth Tremble
E2
Episode 2
Is This the Man Who Made the Earth Tremble
After discovering Amber, Pontius and Abraham reminiscing about an estranged family member, Jesse tasks his friends with acquiring surveillance footage that could explain the strange events of the night before.
They Are Weak, But He Is Strong
E3
Episode 3
They Are Weak, But He Is Strong
Aimee-Leigh's elderly brother Baby Billy returns to the Gemstone ministry, bringing along his much younger wife Tiffany. Jesse closes ranks on his co-conspirators to root out the identity of his blackmailers.
Wicked Lips
E4
Episode 4
Wicked Lips
Judy and Martin take Gideon behind-the scenes of the Gemstone enterprise. Eli tasks Kelvin with doing a “satanic sweep” for Dot, the rebellious teen daughter of the church’s biggest donors. Jesse and his friends are thrown for a loop when Chad’s wife finds some disturbing emails.
Interlude
E5
Episode 5
Interlude
In 1989, young Jesse, Judy and Baby Billy each deal with the news that Aimee-Leigh is pregnant in their own unique way, while Eli looks to grow his family’s prospects.
Now the Sons of Eli Were Worthless Men
E6
Episode 6
Now the Sons of Eli Were Worthless Men
Jealous of Kelvin’s rising star, Judy seeks her moment in the spotlight under Baby Billy’s tutelage. Jesse procures a key piece of evidence he hopes will lead to the blackmailers.
And Yet One of You is a Devil
E7
Episode 7
And Yet One of You is a Devil
Eli informs Jesse, Kelvin and Judy that they’ll each need to be front and center for Easter Sunday service, their biggest telecast of the year. Judy’s deference to Baby Billy threatens her relationship with BJ and with her family.
But the Righteous Will See Their Fall
E8
Episode 8
But the Righteous Will See Their Fall
Jesse deals with the fallout of the dramatic events of Easter Sunday. Judy attempts to win back BJ after receiving some harsh words from Baby Billy. Kelvin has a crisis of faith.
Better is the End of a Thing Than Its Beginning
E9
Episode 9
Better is the End of a Thing Than Its Beginning
Eli questions his children's future in the Gemstone ministry. Jesse struggles to keep his marriage together. Judy opens up to BJ about her past. A disillusioned Kelvin embraces his dark side. Season One Finale.
Cast of Season 1
Danny McBride
Jesse Gemstone
Adam Devine
Kelvin Gemstone
Edi Patterson
Judy Gemstone
Cassidy Freeman
Amber Gemstone
Tim Baltz
Benjamin Jason 'BJ' Barnes
Tony Cavalero
Keefe Chambers
Skyler Gisondo
Gideon Gemstone
Gregory Alan Williams
Martin Imari
Walton Goggins
Baby Billy Freeman
John Goodman
Eli Gemstone
Season 1 Reviews
The Ringer
Alison Herman
Gemstones operates at a much grander scale than Vice Principals' shabby high school or Eastbound's minor league baseball diamond. And scale means opportunity.
Pajiba
Roxana Hadadi
Walton Goggins was the secret weapon of The Righteous Gemstones in a role that combined Boyd Crowder from Justified and Lee Russell from Vice Principals.
The Daily Beast
Nick Schager
There's plenty of humor to be found here, but-in a twist bigger than any of its narrative right-turns-there's also considerable heart.
AV Club
Kyle Fowle
"The Righteous Gemstones," mines more comedy out of strange family dynamics than it does cruel competition or toeing the line of what's politically correct.
Mashable
Angie Han
Ultimately, Gemstones is just a portrait of one troubled family, and it's a sharp and colorful one.
NPR
Linda Holmes
With that tight focus on these characters comes a need to differentiate them from similar characters we've seen before. That's the show's most significant flaw.
Salon.com
Ashlie D. Stevens
[The Righteous Gemstones] is tight, bizarre and has some ace comedic timing, but one where so far any prayer of incisive commentary on evangelicalism in Trump's America seemed to be deliberately left unanswered.
Slate
Jack Hamilton
The Righteous Gemstones might be the funniest show currently on television, and it's certainly the funniest show I've ever seen about grief.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Jen Chaney
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.
Slate
Inkoo Kang
The show barely scratches the surface before reverting to a more conventional crime-dramedy mode. And so the familiarity of McBride's M.O. disheartens.
Chicago Sun-Times
Richard Roeper
It's the Danny McBride way. Go big or go even bigger.
Vox
Emily St. James
The Righteous Gemstones is smart about what happens when you decide money is core to your faith, because money has a way of tainting itself.
The Atlantic
Shirley Li
Distinctly uncomfortable to watch, and [reveals] a sad, surreal, and often funny truth about the American dream: to attain it, dreamers run the risk of blindly believing they're entitled to anything.
Vox
Alissa Wilkinson
Sure, all the Gemstones are still ridiculous, and played that way. But the show has empathy for them, too, and recognizes that they're still people, even when they're terrible people.
AV Club
Randall Colburn
It takes a full 30 minutes for The Righteous Gemstones to take us to church, which is just way too damn long for a series about an ultra-rich family of prosperity preachers. The good news, though, is that it's worth the wait.
TIME Magazine
Judy Berman
HBO's Gemstones takes only intermittent interest in its characters' internal lives... this comedy would rather wring easy laughs out of the selfish, hypocritical and often just stupid Gemstones.
Detroit News
Tom Long
Loud, dumb stuff can be fun but in "The Righteous Gemstones" it's all too easy; the jokes are tired, the characters broad and buffoonish, the plot turns lazy. Heaven help us.
Polygon
Karen Han
The Righteous Gemstones is filled with characters that are hard to like but you can't help but sympathize with.
Observer
Pilot Viruet
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.
Washington Post
Hank Stuever
Mostly the show comes off as an unfinished, vaguely Coen brothers-flavored gumbo of broad stereotypes, violent occurrences and snakey retributions among a family whose holiest instincts were long ago subsumed by their contempt for one another.
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The Righteous Gemstones: Meet The Gemstones
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