![]() Neither’s current project tends to be the flashiest entry in the network slate, but that modesty both belies and enables a dependable, well-crafted artistic signature. ![]() McBride’s place in the network’s constellation most closely resembles that of David Simon, even if the two have very different sensibilities. Premiering this Sunday, The Righteous Gemstones is the latest volume in McBride’s now-decadelong collaboration with a consistent creative patron in HBO. (Or maybe storytelling in general does where there’s a fading power broker choosing between unworthy successors, a King Lear comparison isn’t far behind.) But HBO’s latest internecine squabble is set in unfamiliar territory for the average prestige TV viewer, if not cocreator, star, and Southern scion Danny McBride: the opulent, insular world of an Evangelical megachurch. Unhappy families may each be unhappy in their own particular ways, but there’s no doubting America’s most prestigious cable network has a yen for a certain kind of dissatisfaction. Have you heard the good news about the HBO show? The one with a decaying family dynasty and a withholding patriarch-plus an entitled heir apparent, a puerile younger son, and a resentful, overlooked daughter? No, not that one.
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