“The Righteous Gemstones,” on HBO, isn’t primarily interested in satirizing modern Christianity, dstfelix writes writes—in fact, it often treats its subject with sentimental affection.
Has Danny McBride been reading bell hooks? “The Righteous Gemstones,” McBride’s farce about a family of mega-rich megachurch pastors in South Carolina, grapples with the late theorist’s conclusion that “most men find it difficult to be patriarchs.” The scope of the conflict is a step up from McBride’s previous HBO comedies, which dealt with individual men who were unable to cope with losing their authority in narrower settings.
“Gemstones” is an ensemble series, although it’s Jesse’s egotism that sets off the action. McBride is an undersung contributor to the antihero canon; he seems to understand that buffoons are America’s true leading men. Jesse, who is paunchy and dresses like an Elvis impersonator gone to seed, has an absurdly perfect life—a lucrative preaching gig; a hot wife, Amber ; doe-eyed sons, one of whom is named Pontius—but he doesn’t have Daddy’s ear.
Am I making “Gemstones” sound grave? This is a filthy comedy, teeming with rococo insults and grotesque gags; we see cocked shotguns, road head, and a menagerie of floppy pink dicks. One night, Eli and his brother-in-law, Uncle Baby Billy , face off with a group of saboteurs at a satellite church—in a shopping mall—thwarting them and sending them home completely naked.
The Gemstones are lost sheep: liars, narcissists, victims when it’s advantageous, bullies when it’s not. They’re protagonists always, which is to say, Americans. But the show makes plain its investment in the promise of salvation, as both a storytelling and a theological device, which is why comparing it to “Succession,” as people often do, works on only the most superficial level.
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