Comment on Episode 1 of the new season of righteous gemstones is lost cause propaganda
Enelop@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
I think for a comedy it was fine, I don’t think they were trying to do commentary on the Civil War so much as an origin story for the exploitation the family is involved with and has been since the days of The Civil War.
It shows how the original Elijah came to understand how he could manipulate people with religion, when he calmed men that were about to be executed with prayer.
If it was a serious show I’d agree but it’s satire.
Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
I agree, righteous gemstones generally whitewashes the southern church and rarely shows the racism and homophobia that would be present. But I give it a pass because it’s funny, this episode wasn’t funny. The only joke of the show was him giving a bad sermon to those troops, the rest was just sad imagery of confederate boys dying. This episode was them trying to be serious and it didn’t work IMO.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
Satire doesn’t have to be “funny”. I think you’re running into the rigidity of your expectations.