- Network: HBO
- Series Premiere Date: Aug 18, 2019
User Score
Generally favorable reviews- based on 10 Ratings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 6 out of 10
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Mixed: 1 out of 10
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Negative: 3 out of 10
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The Righteous GemstonesYour Score0 out of 10User ScoreGenerally favorable reviews- based on 10 Ratings
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Jun 28, 2023The 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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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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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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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.]