so funny “righteous gem” Uncle Baby Could Be Billy, in season 3 he’s making a lifelong goal happen for series star Walton Goggins: hosting a game show.
“It’s always been a dream of mine, to be quite honest with you, to get that experience and say that kind of opening monologue in front of an audience,” Goggins told TheWrap. In season 3’s “For Their Nakedness Is Your Own Nakedness”, Uncle Baby Billy stumbles upon his latest scheme, which involves hosting a game show called “Baby Billy’s Bible Bonkers”. As his family repeatedly points out, it’s just like a “family feud,” hopefully it’s about the Bible.
Goggins said, “Definitely leave it to Baby Billy to watch an episode of ‘Family Feud’ and present this idea as if it were just his own.” “It’s just so much fun. This season, for me, was without any deep kind of emotional learning experience and was really about staying focused, staying on message.
Goggins isn’t the only series star who is happy with her character’s Season 3 trajectory. After two seasons of acting as patriarch of the Gemstone family, the third season sees Eli Gemstone (JOHN GOODMAN) step back and let his kids drive.
“I think Aly and I are almost at the same point in life. We want to make things a little too easy, and things happen that you can’t get away from,” Goodman said.
“The strange tragedy of these kids is that it’s so easy when you’re sitting on the bench talking shit and saying, ‘Man, Eli doesn’t know what he’s doing.’ They get an opportunity to stand there, and they realize it’s not as easy as they think,” series creator and star Danny McBride said of the Season 3 arc. “They’re so entitled and privileged That they haven’t been through anything in life that could prepare them for that job. They haven’t paid their dues or learned from the experience.”
Nepotism aside, “The Righteous Gemstones” has always been a show that seems more controversial than it actually is. Although the series serves as a scathing critique of a branch of Christianity defined by megachurches, neither Goodman nor McBride has focused on critical criticism of Christians.
Goodman attributes the lack of reaction to the fact that his character is often “in the eye of the storm at times, but I’m not the eye of the storm.” But for McBride, the lack of response speaks to the larger themes of his HBO comedy.
“We are not saying that every church is like this. I mean, you can’t deny that there aren’t ministers out there who like to fly in private jets and wear $1,000 sneakers. You can open social media, you can watch TV and those people are there,” McBride said. “For me, religion has nothing to do with what’s funny in the show. The butt of the joke are people who are lining their own pockets and using faith as a way to enrich themselves, and I think no religious person would really approve of using faith that way. Will do Even if someone is religious, I think they can see it, and they can see that this kind of person is deserving of derision.
New Episodes of “The Righteous Gemstones” Season 3 Premieres Sundays at 10/9c on HBO
