Prelude, plays like a Civil War movie. Graphic, violent, touching, and a tiny bit sadistic. Bradley Cooper plays a Gemstone ancestor and he carries the Episode. His scheming, unscrupulous crook who lives for the money goes from belonging to the trash of humanity to finding his idea of honor and redemption.

"I never thought we’d get a guy of his stature to wear a period piece wool costume in 90 degree weather for 10 days straight," McBride says of casting his surprise Civil War-set final season opener. "And for no money.

The fourth and final season of "The Righteous Gemstones" has finally arrived on HBO. With the final season comes new responsibility for the Gemstone kids. They finally have what they want – control of the family megachurch - but leadership turns out to be a lot more difficult than any of them expected.

The story includes mild spoilers from the Season 4 premiere of HBO’s The Righteous Gemstones. The Righteous Gemstones fans tuning in for the Season 4 premiere may be doing a double take or checking the menu to make sure they’ve got the right show as Danny McBride’s HBO televangelist comedy kicked off its

The Righteous Gemstones” is funny, wry, clever, disgusting, moving, shocking, and endearing in ways that are purely aspirational for most comedies on TV, and I’m sorry to say goodbye to it.

After The Righteous Gemstones' thrilling season 4 premiere set during the Civil War, I'm convinced Danny McBride should make a western for HBO.