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    The misunderstood humor of Danny McBride

    by Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times Aug 16, 2019 5 minutes

    "The Righteous Gemstones," which premieres Sunday, is the third HBO series created or co-created by and starring Danny McBride. It's not every comic actor who can make that claim. Indeed, if you exclude Chris Lilley's single-season Australian imports, which most readers will not be able to name, there is only Danny McBride.

    Focusing on a family of Carolina televangelists, "Gemstones" follows "Eastbound & Down" (2009-13), which tracked the fall and rise (and fall and rise) of former major league baseball pitcher Kenny Powers, and "Vice Principals" (2016-17), in which McBride's Neal Gamby schemes to become a high school principal. It completes what McBride has described as a "misunderstood angry man trilogy," though I would argue that if anyone misunderstands Kenny Powers, Neil Gamby and Jesse Gemstone, it is Kenny, Neil and Jesse.

    All are set in the South - and McBride, a Georgia-born Virginian, ramps up

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