The Best Comedy on TV Is Coming to a Hilarious, Heartfelt End

Danny McBride ’s brilliant, profane, bonkers, and ebulliently big-hearted satire of a scheming and squabbling family of televangelists has been the best comedy on television.

The show's final season, which starts Sunday on HBO , finds McBride and his ridiculously talented band of collaborators going out on top, and at the top of their game.

One of the true miracles of The Righteous Gemstones is the show’s complete refusal of cynicism.

It's fundamentally optimistic without ever feeling sanctimonious or sentimental.

The show implicitly affirms that most people, even those affiliated with an industry that many believe to be rotten, are in fact better than our worst expectations of them.