#maybe it’s just my dark comedy bias. family and love cant ALWAYS win…. | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

mummer · 9 months

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now that ive finished it the righteous gemstones is obviously a really funny show that i liked very much but it’s kinda interesting how it ends up pulling its punches about evangelicalism im fully aware it’s a silly comedy and not trying to Do Messaging and yet. like it really lampshades the extreme wealth etc but it doesnt really wanna CONDEMN it… so then you get a a billionaire conservative megachurch pastor who does all these objectively pretty terrible things while ALSO having him be Flawed But Really Good At Heart and not hate gay people.. like wym? are these people abusive or not actually not really it’s fine…. Does the show actually understand the structural evil of evangelicalism or not. is it like, BAD to be a megachurch pastor manipulating the masses for monetary gain or does the power of love and family and good intentions and apologizing override that. you cant hate eli too much dont worry dont think about it he isnt homophobic so it’s fine. Okay so the satire is completely meaningless then and doesnt work

#fuck that old man idc that he’s tryin his best…..#it ends up having an extremely christian worldview of personal sinning and then redemption it’s so weird!!!#ik it’s not a comedy so it’s different but with succession it was very easy for the suow to recognize the evil while still having you care #about the characters. gemstones would not be Less Funny if eli was outwardly acknowledged by the show to be a bad guy #they keep getting really close and then being like naahhhhhh we cant do john goodman like that #maybe it’s just my dark comedy bias. family and love cant ALWAYS win….#Sorry that barry did this to my brain #but s1 did feel like at the beginning at least it was trying to do a cycle of abuse sorta thing!!!! and then nvm #Guys when jesse enrolled his son in military school against his will and it was framed as like. Good and fine probably #rather than the worst possible thing you could do to anyone. lol?!?!?!

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