The Righteous Gemstones Recap: Masters of Rips

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After the storm that opens this week’s episode of The Righteous Gemstones — and prompts a Keefe monologue on the devil’s “evil rain piss” that requires its own space to unpack — we discover that Kelvin’s childhood treehouse has been so damaged that the Gemstones’ head groundskeeper has set to work demolishing it. Kelvin orders the workers to stop and later visits the treehouse with Keefe, where he laments life’s cruel twists of fate (“We’re all so powerless. Anything...