The Righteous Gemstones

The following recap contains spoilers for The Righteous Gemstones S3E7 “Burn for Burn, Wound for Wound, Stripe for Stripe” (written by John Carcieri, Jeff Fradley & Danny McBride and directed by Danny McBride) Editor’s Note: This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, […] More

The following recap contains spoilers for The Righteous Gemstones S3E6, “For Out of the Heart Comes Evil Thoughts” (written by John Carcieri and Danny McBride and directed by Jonathan Watson). Editor’s Note: This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the series being […] More

The following recap contains spoilers for The Righteous Gemstones S3E5 “Interlude III” (written by John Carcieri & Danny McBride and directed by David Gordon Green). Every season of The Righteous Gemstones, it’s been the same. It’s an Interlude episode, I say. It won’t be quite as exciting as the main storyline, I say. But damn it, the […] More

The following recap contains spoilers for The Righteous Gemstones S3E4 “I Have Not Come To Bring Peace, But a Sword” (written by John Carcieri & Danny McBride and directed by Jody Hill). After last week’s relatively benign and surprisingly sweet conclusion, this week The Righteous Gemstones makes up for it with an eventful episode that sharply increases the stakes […] More

The following recap contains spoilers for The Righteous Gemstones S3E3, “For Their Nakedness Is Your Own Nakedness” (written by Kevin Barnett, Danny McBride & Chris Pappas and directed by Danny McBride) Immediately this week in The Righteous Gemstones “For Their Nakedness Is  Your Own Nakedness,” Baby Billy makes his triumphant return. And God bless him, the man […] More

The following recap contains spoilers for The Righteous Gemstones S3E2 “But Esau Ran to Meet Him” (written by John Carcieri & Danny McBride and directed by Jody Hill) “But Esau Ran to Meet Him” opens with Judy’s former tryst Stephen arguing with his wife in their kitchen. His unwillingness to reveal the real reason he […] More

The following recap contains spoilers for The Righteous Gemstones S3E1 “For I Know the Plans I Have for You” (written by John Carcieri & Danny McBride and directed by Jody Hill). Now that The Righteous Gemstones has established the family’s tendency to get wrapped up in dangerous and damning situations, the first episode of Season 3, […] More

The following contains spoilers for The Righteous Gemstones S2E9, “I Will Tell of All Your Deeds” (directed by Jody Hill and written by John Carcieri, Jeff Fradley and Danny McBride) It seemed a tall order to wrap up everything happening in the eventful second season of the show, but the fast-paced and very satisfying season finale […] More

The following contains spoilers for The Righteous Gemstones S2E8, “The Prayer of a Righteous Man” (directed by David Gordon Green and written by Grant Dekernion, Chad Handley and Danny McBride) This penultimate episode of The Righteous Gemstones Season 2 doubles down on the character work and answers a few questions while asking a few more. Eli praises […] More

The following contains spoilers for The Righteous Gemstones S2E7, “And Infants Shall Rule Over Them” (written by John Carcieri & Jeff Fradley & Danny McBride and directed by Jody Hill) Based on the comments in the Reddit discussion thread for last week’s episode, the shocking final moments of the attack on Eli left all of us […] More