![]() (McBride’s own parents divorced when he was in the sixth grade.) Kenny Powers gets a family, loses and regains it Neil Gamby, divorced, is desperate to connect with his daughter Jesse Gemstone has forbidden any mention of his oldest son (Skyler Gisondo), who left the family to pursue a career as a Hollywood stuntman. Fatherhood, complicated by separation, is an issue in all three series. All revel in and repudiate a certain confused masculinity. It completes what McBride has described as a “misunderstood angry man trilogy,” though I would argue that if anyone misunderstands Kenny Powers, Neil Gamby and Jesse Gemstone, it is Kenny, Neil and Jesse.Īll are set in the South - and McBride, a Georgia-born Virginian, ramps up the accents for cornpone comic effect. Indeed, if you exclude Chris Lilley’s single-season Australian imports, which most readers will not be able to name, there is only Danny McBride.įocusing on a family of Carolina televangelists, “Gemstones” follows “Eastbound & Down” (2009-13), which tracked the fall and rise (and fall and rise) of former major league baseball pitcher Kenny Powers, and “Vice Principals” (2016-17), in which McBride’s Neal Gamby schemes to become a high school principal. ![]() It’s not every comic actor who can make that claim. “The Righteous Gemstones,” which premieres Sunday, is the third HBO series created or co-created by and starring Danny McBride. ![]()
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