Muscle boys and Eric André welcome The Righteous Gemstones back for a second season
Danny McBride's satire of megachurch crooks will be back on HBO on January 9, 2022
TV News The Righteous Gemstones
It’s been two years since HBO debuted the first season of The Righteous Gemstones, a period that’s seen our collective need for some kind of spiritual reassurance—and the deeply exploitable profitability of same—only skyrocket. So thank God, or whoever, for the show’s upcoming second season, which the network is promoting with a new trailer released online today.
In addition to lightly touching on the whole COVID thing, the show’s new trailer also steers into the vibe of that other HBO dramedy about a dysfunctional family of uber-rich assholes, as Danny McBride’s Jesse openly plots to inherit the wealth and power of family patriarch Eli (John Goodman), while siblings Kelvin (Adam DeVine) and Judy (Edi Patterson) plot against him—for a value of
“plotting” that mostly involves criticizing his decision to bust out a thoroughly pre-pandemic “Bye, Felicia” meme.
Meanwhile, Kelvin is also rolling forward with “God’s Army,” i.e., a burly crew of muscular boys/muscle men that Eli doesn’t seem to approve of, despite their clearly god-given ability to break cinder blocks with their elbows. Jesse is also attempting to forge some kind of alliance with Eric André’s Lyle Lissons, who runs the Gemstone’s rival family of extremely profitable megachurches in the American West.
All that, and we get to see Tim Baltz’s BJ “shake that cake,” and John Goodman looking sadder than anyone has ever looked on a rollercoaster, and a shot of Jesse and his wife Amber (Cassidy Freeman) trying to outwit COVID by hugging each other through a big plastic sheet.
The Righteous Gemstones was created by McBride; the show’s first season was directed by a number of his regular collaborators, including Halloween director David Gordon Green and Jody Hill. The series is set to return (joy, joy, joy hopefully intact somewhere down in its heart) to HBO on January 9.
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Fuck. Yes.
I am freakin PUMPED! I been drinking green tea all day!
I go to church every goddamn Sunday! You gonna bring the demons out of me?!?
Fill me up again, boys. I would seriously watch Danny McBride and Jody Hill bag groceries.
Need more Walton Goggins penis
This trailer, sadly, doesn’t answer the question of whether or not everyone is “Misbehavin’”.
Just seeing this word gets the song stuck in my head for days.
“Runnin’ through the house
With a pickle in my mouth
Misbehaving!”We still sing that around our house whenever the pickle jar comes out of the fridge.
So glad it’ll be back soonish
“Who’s Felicia?”This is gonna be so good.
cannot fucking wait. eric andre is gonna push this one into the stratosphere. watching the absolutely toothless ‘the eyes of tammy faye’ got me even more eager to see what the gemstones are up to.
The obvious inspiration for the “God Squad”: http://www.thepowerteam.com/
Lest we forget:
One time I was at a mall Foot Locker store and overheard a guy talking with the clerk about how he used to be in the Power Team, which I was aware of due to being a 90’s youth group kid.
You get his number?
The first season’s “Interlude” was my favorite episode of TV the year it aired. I can’t wait.
This show was unexpectedly amazing. This looks good
I was expecting it to be good—-after all, the last time time Edi, Jody, Danny and Walton did something, we got Vice Principals.
Yeah, after VP I had no doubt it would likely be pretty good.
So psyched. Even my super-Catholic mother, whom I thought would have a problem with a satirical show about Christians, laughed her ass off at The Righteous Gemstones. My only complaint is that the trailer needs more Walton Goggins (as do most things in life).
My catholic Mom absolutely loved the show, but that’s mostly because Catholics think evangelicals are fake Christian weirdos
True, it is hard to think of a show or a movie that couldn’t be improved by adding Walton Goggins. He’s like the sriracha of actors.
Immediate suggestion for bolstering New Blood on Showtime—add Walton as a big bad.
The repeat pairing of Danny McBride and Walton Goggins as men who are supposed to similarly bad/unlikable just never works for me, because God help me, I always end up rooting for Goggins.It even happened in Justified. And that was as a foil for Timothy Olyphaunt!In fun TV shows, Goggins always seems to be having the most fun.
Goggins and Pitts were the real stars of Justified.
There are…a lot of really great members of the Justified cast who made an impact. But please don’t forget Erica Tazel, who was forced to carry just about every “we know Kentucky is actually racist and will make occasional gestures” line in the series.I really wish Hollywood could get away from the whole “the leading man must be a cipher” trend.
That entire marshals office was a den of dry wit and sarcasm. It would seem like Art put that on the ‘job requirements’ list.
Nick Searcy also doesn’t get enough credit.
More Walton Goggins is always the answer
This is everything I ever dreamed of and more
My only complaint? January 9th is too far away
oh thank god – this is gonna be a fuckin blast
Could they at least make a crossover episode with Succession?
or The Conners.Turns out Eli and Dan are third cousins, twice removed.
I’m only in for Boss. I’m guessing he filmed this during the “summer break” from Conners? I only heard about the renewal recently, so I’m guessing it was pretty much in the can by that point?btw, between a couple scenes here (solo rollercoaster) and several bored walk throughs on Conners, it seems John might be looking at retiring? He mentioned at SLIFF’18 several friends were trying to talk him into it, but he’s a busy bee and hates sitting around all day, esp now that he’s sober. Plus, his career can go as long as he wants to work, and his brother is well into his 80s (+14 on John) and still doing well from appearances. (I work retail near where he lives and see him on occasion.)
I really likes this show. I was most concerned about this show that the pandemic would either kill it or erase it from people’s memories. 2 years is too long. I get why but with modern streaming and loads of competition. Shows that build from a strong story and strong fan base may not longer get to wait 2+ years between seasons or else get forgotten.