The Righteous Gemstones (HBO) TV Show • Page 52

This has pretty easily been the worst season from a storytelling perspective, even if you don’t factor in that it’s the last. The overarching plot of the third season would have been a much better “final season” storyline

 

Totally agree s3 would have been a better send off, but I've really enjoyed this season too

 

I fully don’t care that the storyline has been the weakest this season because it’s just so fucking funny and every actor is giving a genuinely great dramatic performance just with outrageous dialogue

 

can’t say i’ve ever come to this show for plot

 

Except the car pranks

 

car pranks
uncle baby billy
Keefe
lots of full frontal male nudity

 

Never said anything about what makes anyone "come to this show," but the well-crafted character arcs have always been what makes this show more than just another funny sitcom. You care about the stakes, despite how awfuly you know the characters to be, because they're earned. It adds to both the jokes and the overall quality of the series

 

i disagree. the show is just a funny sitcom to me. a very funny one, at that.

 

You don't agree the stories of the first three seasons were very well done? Gideon and Jesse's arc in the first season? The conflict with Eli's family in the third season? The development of the relationships between Judy/BJ and Kelvin/Keefe over the course of the whole show? The show does a lot to make clear that it isn't all just for the sake of laughs

 

Is that daddy or is that a Shakespeare witch?

 

I didn't say they were poorly done but if they were poorly done and the show still had the same quality of jokes, I would enjoy it all the same. i don't get the big deal.

 

Baby Billy has had me laughing so hard throughout this season. All of the Teenjus stuff, him praying to God to bless his bump of cocaine, oh my God lol

 

It wouldn't make the jokes less funny, but it would/does make the show not as good. Not many shows can balance being both incredibly absurd and incredibly sincere as well as this one has

 

To be honest I thought the plot of the first season was easily the best and the rest of the season’s plots didn’t really do much for me.

 

Yeah the villain and Gideon’s salvation in S1 is the clear plot winner by a mile. But I do agree this season may be the funniest.

I think Walton Goggins deserves his own show but I also think he’s the absolute best in roles like this where he can be a tornado. He can’t be Jerry, but he’s a perfect Kramer.

 

Am I misremembering/misunderstanding or did they allude to Lori actually having some sort of agenda or weird intentions?

 

There was the weird scene with her wearing Aimee Leigh's glasses

 

Holy shit the Teenjus musical number almost had me crying

Goggins is easily the MVP of this series

 

"Stop smoking that pipe in the house, up here thinking you Bilbo Baggins. This ain't no Hobbit House"

 

Danny and the writers had to be cackling when they wrote John Goodman showing up in that musical scene. He looked fucking ridiculous in the best way.

 

Anyone else think that the monkey smoking and jacking part where the one son was filming it was going to get the Gemstone family in trouble with PETA or something? Like the "cool" son releases it so his skater friends can see it and the media catches wind and its a downfall. What was the point of showing the bad apple son filming it? Kinda had me thinking.

 

The monkey smoking was so stupid but I was laughing so hard.

 

I kinda eye rolled at the monkey being psychotic to Judy Gemstone haha we've already seen it in other sitcoms like Malcom in the Middle, but eh, whatever

 

The gator park stuff was a way more intense than I expected. Absolutely lost it at Big Dick Mitch making the car sales pitch.

 

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