Sins of the past influencing the decisions of the present weighed heavily over season one of “The Righteous Gemstones,” HBO’s comedic lambasting of televangelist mega-church culture.
Putting on a pious show, the drifting, uber-rich Memphis family looked down the barrel of ruin of their own making, bringing them to the brink.
Dr. Eli Gemstone (John Goodman), the patriarch of the world-famous Gemstone Salvation Center, spent much of the first season desperately trying to keep his creation from imploding after several calamities set into motion by his ungovernable offspring.
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