Fake Geek Girls - A Critical Look at Pop Culture

Episode 210 – The Righteous Gemstones

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Join us as we journey into history, depravity, and hypocrisy as we take a closer look at Danny McBride’s The Righteous Gemstones! Can people this bad be redeemed? Isn’t that what the whole Christ story is about? And how close to reality is this, anyway? Let’s find out.

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  • Psychology of THE RIGHTEOUS GEMSTONES by Shrink Tank
  • John Oliver set up his own church to expose televangelists for fleecing vulnerable people by German Lopez
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  • What HBO’s The Righteous Gemstones gets right about evangelicals by Emily St. James and Alissa Wilkinson
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  • Berlioz’s Requiem by Jennifer Walker
  • How The Righteous Gemstones Quietly Became TV’s Most Homoerotic Show by Nadine Smith
  • ‘The Righteous Gemstones’ skewers pro-Trump evangelicals’ real-life hypocrisies by Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons
  • White evangelical voters show steadfast support for Donald Trump’s presidency by Peter Smith
  • In God’s country by Elizabeth Bruenig
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  • Danny McBride Is the Darkest Artist on the Planet, and Righteous Gemstones Is His Magnum Opus by Shane Ryan
  • The Righteous Gemstones Careens Wildly Through Emotional Tones, and Nails Them All by Shane Ryan
  • The Lost Sheep of Danny McBride’s “The Righteous Gemstones” by Doreen St. Felix
  • Judy’s diary prop photos
  • Righteous Gemstone Wiki
  • God bless The Righteous Gemstones, the TV show that helped me reckon with my religious trauma by Jay Ashdown

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