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Many considered the Emmy nominations in mainly technical categories a snub for the HBO dramedy The Righteous Gemstones, citing recognition for the performances delivered in the final season of the show. The final season of the show received six nominations in the categories of cinematography, sound editing, music supervision, period makeup, contemporary costumes, and stunt coordination.
Be that as it may, in the nominations that the show received, the second episode of the final season had a lot to contribute. The season premiere opened with a Civil War-set prologue featuring Bradley Cooper's Elijah Gemstone as the original ancestor to "take" the Golden Bible, earning the period recognitions from the Academy. However, it was the wild chaos of the second episode that really lit the match for the final season.
Here's what the creatives behind The Righteous Gemstones had to say about the chaos that was Season 4, Episode 2.
The Righteous Gemstones creatives look back at one of the most chaotic episodes for the final season
If there's one thing that The Righteous Gemstones is known for, it is the wild swings that the creatives take in their morally debased debauchery in the name of divine comedy.
Such is the case in the final season, which opens with the first episode, a prequel set in the Civil War, where none other than Bradley Cooper plays an ancestor, Elijan Gemstone. Elijah Gemstone kills a preacher and steals his Gold Bible and his identity, setting up the many generations that will come after him.
No sooner do you somehow digest this flashback episode than the next episode, "You Hurled Me Into the Very Heart of the Seas," rolls in. There is not a single costume choice, or music choice, or joke that did not hit the designated mark in this episode.
The second episode follows the Gemstones staging the annual Aimee-Leigh Birthday Give-A-Thon telethon, where the Gemstone kids try to present themselves as God in front of their congregation.
They try to achieve this by using jetpacks, which allow them to fly, as proof of God's love, power, and, of course, his connection to the Gemstones. Music Supervisor DeVoe Yates looks back at this episode and the musical numbers in it (arguably some of the best work).
"I think part of it was just that you're thrown back in the chaos. You see everybody all at once again."
It might've started with Elijan carting a caravan full of dead soldiers to their families, but it was ending with an adult man spinning in circles on his jetpack. Nevertheless, the entire family is brought back together for this episode, despite the chaos and the craziness that followed. Yates added:
"Everybody you’ve loved is there and they’re all doing this crazy, giant musical number. It’s scripted in terms of how things start to go haywire, and the songs build towards those moments."
From the music to the perfect costumes in the swan song, there's not one point where The Righteous Gemstones missed a beat. At the end of the day, costume designer Christina Flannery explains:
"It’s just about going for it because it is so stupid and so funny, and it worked."
Work it did, as can be seen by the Television Academy's nods to the final season of The Righteous Gemstones and the wild swings it's been taking all this time.
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