The Righteous Gemstones Recap: Ancestral Family Vacation Home

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It would be an insult to the writers and craftspeople behind this episode of The Righteous Gemstones merely to describe the cold open as Baby Billy waterskiing in the nude, a kind of sequel to his casual drawer-dropping after the telethon rehearsal in the season’s second episode. Baby Billy’s first full-frontal scene is more a testament to Walton Goggins’s incredible hayseed bravado in the rule. (“Behold, look at this. That’s my privates right there.”) But...