The Righteous Gemstones
The brilliant story of a televangelist family with a slew of secrets mixes sex, violence and very big characters in endlessly inventive and unexpected ways, taking direct shots at the hypocrisy of many who preach the prosperity gospel.
It also gets huge laughs out of gratuitous sequences like one last year that started with a home invasion, then turned to a guitarist spending some quality time with himself in bed, and escalated to a brutal brawl.
But the most unexpected thing about the show, starring co-creator Danny McBride and a stellar ensemble cast, is that it actually seems to believe in God — as when someone (we suspect the Lord) inflicted a plague of locusts on the Gemstones in Season 3.
This is probably our favorite show.
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