‘The Righteous Gemstones’ to Bid Farewell With Fourth and Final Season

The Righteous Gemstones will wrap after its fourth season, HBO announced Thursday. The show’s creator Danny McBride began writing the pilot in 2017, and after eight years, plans to conclude the comedy series with its final season in March.

“The Lord spoke to me and said it’s time to wrap this sucker up,” McBride shared in a statement. “The story this season made the themes, ideas, and characters in ‘The Righteous Gemstones’ feel whole and complete.”

The comedy series kickstarted in 2019, with its third season concluding on HBO in July 2023. That same month, The Righteous Gemstones was renewed for a fourth, and now final, season. The Righteous Gemstones follows an infamous televangelist family with a history of charitable contributions coupled with deviance and greed. As the next generation of Gemstones run the church, family drama ensues.

In the show’s third season, Edi Patterson’s Judy Gemstone, one of three adult heirs to the televangelist empire, stirs up a sexless affair with her touring guitarist, unknown to her innocent husband BJ, played by Tim Baltz. Other cast members include McBride as Jesse Gemstone, Adam Devine as Kelvin Gemstone, John Goodman as Eli Gemstone, Cassidy Freeman as Amber Gemstone, and Tony Cavalero as Keefe Chambers. Megan Mullally and Seann William Scott will join the cast in Season Four. For fans of the series, McBride promises big swings and unexpected outcomes.

 “I have loved every second of working with this team for the past eight years, and there are some incredible payoffs, twists, and turns in store over the course of this wild final season,” McBride wrote.