The Righteous Gemstones Is TV’s Other Great Show About Sucession

“When we were first creating the show, we were thinking of Dallas and Falcon Crest and Dynasty,” says Danny McBride, the creator and star of The Righteous Gemstones, now in its second season on HBO. “In the ’80s, there were all these wealthy-family nighttime soap operas, and that was part of our inspiration.” What the series creators didn’t count on, however, is that they weren’t the only ones thinking along those lines. “We shot our first season at the same exact time that Succession started shooting,” McBride, who has yet to watch that other series, says. “It’s similar themes, from… Read Full Article