The cast and crew of HBO's The Righteous Gemstones were on the second day of shooting season two in March when the novel coronavirus came to Charleston, S.C. — or, as creator-star Danny McBride characterized it, "Everything got real, real quick." So production on the comedy, about a family of televangelists who seem to misplace their WWJD bracelets for weeks or even years at a time, shut down, uncertain when it would be able to resume.
McBride mentioned this during a recent joint interview with series composer Joseph Stephens about their season one musical collaboration, the breakout earworm "Misbehavin'." But the call was supposed to include another participant: the third credited writer on the song, Edi Patterson.
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