- 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, 2019A solidly amusing pilot episode. The Righteous Gemstones is an enjoyable parody of televangelists with a lot of potential. Current rating based only on the first episode. I'll update the score and provide more details as the season progresses.
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Aug 22, 2019Great pilot episode. Looking forward to what this trio and supporting cast can do.
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Jan 11, 2021Danny McBride doesn't go outside his comfort in this moderately funny series. Has some real funny moments but often to few and far between. John Goodman & Edi Patterson are the standouts.
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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).