The Righteous Gemstones: Season 3

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HBO | Season Premiere Date: June 18, 2023

Summary: Jesse and his siblings are now in charge but find running the televangelist empire isn't easy in the third season of the Danny McBride comedy.

Genre(s): Comedy, Drama

Season 3 Episodes

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S3:E8. I Will Take You by the Hand and Keep You
Air Date: July 30, 2023
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S3:E7. Wonders That Cannot Be Fathomed, Miracles That Cannot Be Counted
Air Date: July 30, 2023
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S3:E6. Episode 307
Air Date: July 23, 2023

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Collider Ross Bonaime

Jun 12, 2023

Season 3 improves an already excellent comedy, and hopefully, McBride will continue this ingenious series for years to come. Read full review

Kyle Fowle

Jun 15, 2023

Danny McBride's shows have always felt timely in their own unique way, but the third season of The Righteous Gemstones might be the most in tune with the current moment. It's a hilarious and mordant satire of those who use their power and privilege to exact a moral vision that runs contrary to their own way of living. Read full review

The Playlist Brian Tallerico

Jun 13, 2023

The comedy’s most consistent and confident to date, Read full review

Alison Herman

Jun 16, 2023

The show isn’t making new points about the hypocrisy of for-profit worship. It just underscores them in ever more audacious ways: with monster-truck rallies and racing cars and episode-length flashbacks and a poolside music video starring Walton Goggins’ veneered crooner Baby Billy dressed as a giant oyster. Read full review

Johnny Loftus

Jun 20, 2023

The direction of Gemstones, together with its whip-smart editing and consistently top tier music cues, helps push the series toward darkness as much as the unscrupulous behavior by its characters. It also has its garish heart revealed in riotous costuming, bizarre framing – get a load of the gleaming white spires and towers of the gilded Zion’s Landing – and craven decision making, which only makes the world it’s built for itself come even more weirdly to life. Read full review

Matt Schimkowitz

Jun 20, 2023

The premiere episode reset the family, reminding us who they are and what they’ve been through, slowly introducing characters that will get shaded in later. But it’s episode two where the show really stakes its claim and takes over. [The score is the average of grades for the first two episodes.] Read full review

RogerEbert.com Nandini Balial

Jun 16, 2023

By now, “The Righteous Gemstones” has developed a bit of a formula. I don’t have a problem with that, but the repetitive nature does strike me as very safe. Read full review

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Doduk

Jun 19, 2023

The first 2 episodes where amazing, i like how they introduce new cast, Danny McBride is a good producer that now how to troll some religious people

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titan2287

Jun 20, 2023

Despite the fact that Succession has ended, this more outrageous comedy fills in the void.

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Luke9648

Jun 28, 2023

The first season was a huge disappointment. The second season was everything we HOPED the first season was going to be, and then some. Truly peak Danny McBride HBO. Unfortunately season 3 seems to be more like season 1 than season 2. Bla. Not awful, but not laugh out loud hilarious.

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NavyBean

Aug 5, 2023

For a major Sunday night HBO show, this POS has 9 critic reviews and 9 reader reviews. I see the ratings are down this season to about half of its high-water mark.

Despite ripe subject matter, this show is too cowardly to say anything thoughtful or funny about the "industry." I don't knowFor a major Sunday night HBO show, this POS has 9 critic reviews and 9 reader reviews. I see the ratings are down this season to about half of its high-water mark.

Despite ripe subject matter, this show is too cowardly to say anything thoughtful or funny about the "industry." I don't know how McBride keeps getting work ... it's the exact same character as his first two crappy HBO shows.

It's just people yelling at each other, slow-motion walk-up scenes and winking at the camera (aren't we funny?). Poor John Goodman.

I'd bet this is one of those unscripted shows where the director lets the actors improv, I'd suggest a script by a good writer instead.… Expand

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