The Righteous Gemstones

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Season 3
  • Network: HBO
  • Series Premiere Date: Aug 18, 2019
Season #: 4, 3, 2, 1
User Score
6.6

Generally favorable reviews- based on 10 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 10
  3. Negative: 3 out of 10

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  1. NavyBean
    Aug 5, 2023
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    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 know how McBride keeps getting work ... it's the exact same character as his first two crappy HBO shows.    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 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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Metascore
80

Generally favorable reviews - based on 9 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 9
  3. Negative: 0 out of 9
  1. Decider
    Reviewed by: Johnny Loftus
    Jun 20, 2023
    80
    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.
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  2. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Lili Loofbourow
    Jun 20, 2023
    70
    The series builds scene after scene on the blustery pleasures of its characters’ inarticulacy and delivers a virtual dissertation on unwarranted bravado. (I may never stop thinking about a scene in which Patterson makes glorious, nontraditional use of her index finger.) That said, its main plot is easily the show’s weakest.
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  3. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Matt Schimkowitz
    Jun 20, 2023
    79
    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.]
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