SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for the Season 4 premiere of “The Righteous Gemstones,” now streaming on Max.
For the final season premiere of “The Righteous Gemstones,” the HBO comedy that chronicles a fictional family of megachurch pastors in South Carolina, creator and star Danny McBride knew he had to nail the casting. “Gemstones” had done episode-length flashbacks before, but always with younger versions of characters we already know, like patriarch Eli (John Goodman) or siblings Jesse (McBride), Judy (Edi Patterson) and Kelvin (Adam Devine). Season 4, by contrast, begins over 150 years in the past and stays there for nearly 40 minutes.
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