![]() ![]() Meanwhile, scorned Gemstone uncle Baby Billy Freeman (Walton Goggins, also McBride’s foil in “Vice Principals”), sporting a white bouffant and oversized aviator glasses, wants the family to support his latest idea, a ripoff of “Family Feud” that he’s ridiculously dubbed “Baby Billy’s Bible Bonkers.” Say that twice without laughing. There's also a new Gemstone family member, May-May (Kristen Johnston), who comes with her own set of dysfunctional migraine-sized headaches, and a husband played by Steve Zahn. ![]() One of the Bible's most famous plagues makes an appearance.) The new season explores how these dysfunctional overgrown kids handle running the Gemstone ministry with Eli in retirement. And mainly, we witnessed the three Gemstone mega-brats setting aside their innumerable differences to take control from an increasingly weary patriarch. We saw the creation of the creepily believable Christian resort, Zion's Landing, which helped shore up the Gemstone family's finances. Last season's insanity involved a rivalry-turned-partnership-turned-murder plot with an equally devious evangelist family led by Lyle Lissons (Eric André). ![]() “With all my TV work, the characters are dead serious about themselves, which only highlights their buffoonery,” says McBride, 46, who also writes, directs and produces. Now, he's playing pompous, ego-fueled televangelist scion Jesse Gemstone (McBride), returning for Season 3 of HBO's “The Righteous Gemstones” (Sunday, 10 EDT/PDT, and streaming on Max), joined by his money-grubbing siblings, Judy (Edi Patterson) and Kelvin (Adam Devine), all perpetual thorns in the side of widowed family patriarch Eli (John Goodman). For fans of HBO comedies that are outrageous, curse-filled, searing and silly, Danny McBride is heaven-sent.įirst came pompous, ego-fueled ex-baseball star Kenny Powers (“Eastbound and Down”), followed by pompous, ego-fueled high school administrator Neal Gamby (“Vice Principals”). ![]()
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