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The Righteous Gemstones Recap: Wasting Away in Margaritaville
The Gemstone children’s disrespect for their parents reaches a new low.
“Yucky ducks!” Even though the children find plenty of evidence that their dad has been drinking and carousing on a boat in the Florida Keys, the thought of Eli taking up with someone other than their dead mother is so impossible that they accept his explanation that he uses a bra to catch fish. The Gemstone kids pick up on the obvious signs their father has turned into a seafaring layabout — the long hair, the quarter-filled tequila bottle, the general unkempt bachelor quality of the boat — but they can’t begin to perceive what Eli is going through, much less understand him as a man still capable of love and sex. For his part, Jesse and his family are out hawking high-tech worship kiosks called Prayer Pods for people who want a space at the mall or the airport to access Gemstone sermons and hymns (and episodes of Bible Bonkers) at times of spiritual need, like when they’re waiting for their wives to finish shopping.
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