![]() But unlike Kenny Powers and Neal Gamby, who engendered empathy given how much they have fallen and failed in life, Jesse hasn’t done any of that. Like the other characters McBride has played on HBO, he’s basically an asshole. He lies to his wife, insults his siblings and kids at every opportunity, and indulges private habits that involve cocaine and prostitutes. Jesse is the most ethically compromised of the bunch. They’re all bullies with a very high-profile pulpit. What they don’t have, or at least their three children don’t have, is a moral code of any kind. The Gemstones - once led by patriarch Eli (John Goodman) and matriarch Aimee-Leigh, who recently died (she’s played in flashbacks by country star Jennifer Nettles) - has a string of megachurches throughout the South, a ministry that spreads the word of Jesus Christ around the world, and an evangelically solid reputation built on a successful television show that Eli and Aimee-Leigh hosted in the 1980s. In this new, occasionally amusing HBO comedy, which debuts Sunday night, McBride plays Jesse Gemstone, the oldest of three siblings in a family that has turned preaching and praying into big business. With his central role in The Righteous Gemstones, the latest from McBride and Hill, the actor and writer-director has pulled off a frustrated, unsuccessful man hat trick. In Vice Principals, the second McBride-Hill HBO joint, he played Neal Gamby, a high-school administrator who gets passed over for the principal gig and - with help in season one from a fellow irked white man played by Walton Goggins - makes the life of the woman who wins the position a living hell. ![]() In Eastbound & Down, the first series he co-created with Jody Hill for HBO, he played Kenny Powers, a disgraced major-league pitcher determined to get another at-bat in the sun. Adam Devine, John Goodman, and Danny McBride before their flock in The Righteous Gemstones.ĭanny McBride has an affinity for frustrated and unsuccessful men.
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