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Emmy Voters Don’t Forget: The Powerful Women of ‘The Righteous Gemstones’
The powerful women of ’The Righteous Gemstones’ deserve Emmy voter attention despite the fact that the show focuses on the men.
What Danny McBride’s satiric take on a religious empire has always done with astonishing deftness is balance incredibly vulgar comic situations and dialogue with deeply felt emotions, which kept the show from collapsing into the shallows of dumb humor. Judy (Edi Patterson), Jesse (McBride) and Kelvin (Adam Devine) — the kids of widower Eli Gemstone (John Goodman) — are selfish, narcissistic, greedy, grasping but also capable of self-reflection, vulnerability, contrition and growth. Jennifer Nettles as the late Aimee-Leigh Gemstone really gets to dig into her friendship with Lori Milsap (Megan Mullally), who, has found a romantic connection with widower Eli.
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