Tag: secular viewer
The Surprising Profundity of ‘The Righteous Gemstones’
This article contains spoilers through the Season 3 finale of The Righteous Gemstones.
Though it uses the register of low comedy rather than moody character study or tragicomic caper, HBO’s The Righteous Gemstones, which follows a family of materialistic and vaguely corrupt religious showpeople, is prestige TV in the classic mold. Like Succession or Better Call Saul, it centers on a richly flawed antihero as he builds his empire, and, in the process, studies the workings of