The Righteous Gemstones: Season 2

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HBO | Season Premiere Date: January 9, 2022

Summary: The Gemstone family and its televangelist empire is in danger with the return of someone from their past and an outsider looking to take them down in the second season of the Danny McBride comedy.

Genre(s): Comedy, Drama

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The Daily Beast Nick Schager

Jan 10, 2022

The beauty of McBride, Green and Hill’s small-screen triumph is the way in which it couches its over-the-top exclamations in fittingly lewd and preposterous scenarios. McBride’s Jesse is the corrupt soul of these proceedings, his arrogant greed and ambition almost as great as his pathetic longing for validation from both his father and his peers (at whom he sneers). He’s complemented by one of the best casts in television. Read full review

Collider Ross Bonaime

Jan 7, 2022

This new season of The Righteous Gemstones is the first great comedy show of 2022, a brilliant combination of insanity and surprising heart. Even though McBride has proven his excellence in television before, Season 2 of The Righteous Gemstones feels like a step above what he’s already done. Read full review

Jack Hamilton

Jan 10, 2022

It is a comedy with every fiber of its being, and the funniest one currently on air. ... Gemstones’ extraordinary collection of comedic talent makes it a joy to watch even when its narrative flow occasionally lurches. Read full review

Garrett Martin

Jan 6, 2022

Plot’s never really been what I look for in a McBride show, though. No matter how ridiculous they get, they’re still rooted in a recognizable reality and a detailed eye for how people live and talk in the modern South. That attention to detail is readily apparent in this season’s flashbacks. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Brian Tallerico

Jan 7, 2022

Luckily, the writing on “The Righteous Gemstones” is so densely packed that every subplot that sags is balanced by one that works. The season even gets surprisingly action-packed with a number of scenes in the back half that are like an ‘80s Cannon movie (that's a good thing). Read full review

Roxana Hadadi

Jan 7, 2022

In its totality, what makes this second season of The Righteous Gemstones succeed despite how off-balance its early episodes feel is the sense that, rather than taking only easy shots at people who use Christianity as a shield against rightful accusations of them, McBride and his collaborators have probed deeper into the transformative nature of belief and why it makes such people act that way at all. Read full review

The Playlist Brandon Streussnig

Jan 10, 2022

Season two of “The Righteous Gemstones” is an ambitious, intermittently hysterical mess. McBride and Hill attempt to expand the show outward, often into full-on action set pieces that, while impressive, fail to find cohesion with the rest of the series. Coupled with forgotten plot lines and lost characters, it’s a disappointing step-down. Read full review

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Hstar

Jan 31, 2022

I'm really impressed with Danny McBride and Jody Hill. Everything is original, funny, and heartbreaking.

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Luke9648

Jun 28, 2023

This is what the first season should've been. HILARIOUS. Uncle Baby Billy (Walton Goggins) steals the show.

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geewah

Mar 10, 2022

This season starts with so much promise, but fades rather quickly in it's final few episodes and leaves you with a sense of what could of been.

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OlivierPiel

May 27, 2022

Should have ended after one season. Season 2 was, like almost everything else on "tv", overstretched , bloated and over-the-top, with the proverbial "shark jumping" being the killing/revival of a central character. That said. It's still more watchable than the majority of the self-seriousShould have ended after one season. Season 2 was, like almost everything else on "tv", overstretched , bloated and over-the-top, with the proverbial "shark jumping" being the killing/revival of a central character. That said. It's still more watchable than the majority of the self-serious nonsense coming from woke 'Meuhrika.… Expand

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NavyBean

Jan 25, 2022

Oh look! No written reviews after 4 episodes. Could it be no one gives an F about this ****

Oh look! Another slow motion walk with the characters in very very very funny outfits while an '80s song plays. McBride had a chance to satirize a ripe field, instead he never has the balls toOh look! No written reviews after 4 episodes. Could it be no one gives an F about this ****

Oh look! Another slow motion walk with the characters in very very very funny outfits while an '80s song plays.

McBride had a chance to satirize a ripe field, instead he never has the balls to go far enough to actually say anything.

Now look, there are kinda funny haircuts. Oh look a gay-subtext group without the courage to actually say anything truthful or insightful about it. Not a single laugh in the first four episodes. Smug, "look-at-how outrageous we are" insider crap that's only hysterical to the writers of the show. They just can't believe how funny they are. And neither do we.

Danny McBride couldn't make a hyena laugh.… Expand

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