- Network: HBO
- Series Premiere Date: Aug 18, 2019
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 28 Ratings
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Positive: 19 out of 28
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Mixed: 4 out of 28
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Negative: 5 out of 28
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The Righteous GemstonesYour Score0 out of 10User ScoreGenerally favorable reviews- based on 28 Ratings
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Aug 19, 2019
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Jun 21, 2023Just not funny. Only character that even brought laughs was Baby Billy. McBride and especially Devine just try way too hard and it never lands. I guess if you're over of the few people that don't know megachurch good are a bunch of hypocrites you'll find some humor in that. I guess I just expected more coming off Eastbound and Down.
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For the bulk of this opener, The Righteous Gemstones hovers cautiously, without ever quite finding the strength of its voice. But it clearly has the potential to be much more. I’m praying for these Gemstones to shine.
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The series premiere is an hour long and that’s just fine because we’re just meeting his family and there’s a lot of soak in. But subsequent episodes running as long as 40 minutes seem padded. Feels like this should be a half-hour show. Remarkably, even as we’re shaking our heads at the hypocrisy of these people, by the fourth or fifth episode we have come to like these characters and we start to care about what happens to them. Well. Some of them.
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Where the series ultimately thrives, though, is in its characterizations, which transform in unexpected ways over the course of the first six episodes (which were all that was provided for press).