The Righteous Gemstones

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Season 2
  • Network: HBO
  • Series Premiere Date: Aug 18, 2019
Season #: 4, 3, 2, 1
User Score
7.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 20 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 20
  3. Negative: 2 out of 20
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  1. geewah
    Mar 10, 2022
    7
    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.
  2. OlivierPiel
    May 27, 2022
    5
    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-serious nonsense coming from woke 'Meuhrika.
  3. NavyBean
    Jan 25, 2022
    0
    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 to go far enough to actually say anything. Now look, there are kinda funny haircuts. Oh look a    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 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
  4. Hstar
    Jan 31, 2022
    9
    I'm really impressed with Danny McBride and Jody Hill. Everything is original, funny, and heartbreaking.
  5. Luke9648
    Jun 28, 2023
    9
    This is what the first season should've been. HILARIOUS. Uncle Baby Billy (Walton Goggins) steals the show.

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#39 Best TV Season of 2022

Critic Reviews

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Metascore
82

Universal acclaim - based on 11 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 11
  3. Negative: 0 out of 11
  1. The New Yorker
    Reviewed by: Doreen St. Félix
    Feb 9, 2022
    70
    “Gemstones” is brave, and I want it to explore rather than shy away from all that subtext—which is that straight white men are straight white men because the rest of us are not.
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  2. The Daily Beast
    Reviewed by: Nick Schager
    Jan 10, 2022
    100
    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.
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  3. Slate
    Reviewed by: Jack Hamilton
    Jan 10, 2022
    90
    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.
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